The Tale

The Tale
The Tale
	Film release poster
Directed by	Jennifer Fox
Written by	Jennifer Fox
Produced by	Jennifer Fox; Oren Moverman; Laura Rister; Mynette Louie; Simone Pero; Lawrence Inglee; Sol Bondy; Regina K. Scully; Lynda Weinman; Reka Posta;
Starring	Laura Dern; Ellen Burstyn; Jason Ritter; Elizabeth Debicki; Isabelle Nélisse; Common; Frances Conroy; John Heard;
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir; Ivan Strasburg;
Edited by	Alex Hall; Gary Levy; Anne Fabini;
Music by	Ariel Marx
Production; companies	Gamechanger Films; Fork Films; One Two Films; WeatherVane Productions; Blackbird Films;
Distributed by	HBO Films
Release dates	January 20, 2018 (Sundance); May 26, 2018 (United States);
Running time	114 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Tale is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox and starring Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabelle Nélisse, Common, Frances Conroy, and John Heard. It tells the story of Fox's own child sexual abuse and her coming to terms with it in her later life. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on May 26, 2018. Despite making the film in 2018, she waited five years – and two years after her abuser's death – to reveal in a 2023 interview that her abuser was Ted Nash, a two-time Olympic medalist in rowing and nine-time Olympic coach.