It starts with a small village of fairies preparing for a big wedding, planning everything with care and enthusiasm, when all of a sudden their queen Aleeda comes saying that they made a mistake and there will be no more contact between fairies and humans, and her gift necklace is left hanging there, on a rock, as a reminder.
Amanda is sad because her grandfather recently died. He had secretly turned their house into a bed & breakfast, and had left it to his daughter, not to his wife, asking her to run it instead of going back to the big city, and he left a video to explain that in the end it’s her choice, and she can leave if she want, or she can “grant a dying man his wish” ... so she can’t really say no, can she?
He also left Amanda a horse because she loves horses. Amanda’s happy to stay and her grandmother tells her of her ‘fairy friends’.
Amanda’s mother Patricia keeps being unpleasant to Dylan the handyman when she meets her old friend Turk after twenty years. He asks her out but he has something on his mind; Amanda hears him saying on the phone that Patricia ‘will be no trouble’ and then he tries to pay her off or stop her from telling her mom so she runs away on her horse and falls. Cali the fairy talks to her and takes her to her village. Afterwards her mother finds her and Amanda tries to tell her everything but she just talked to her about fairies that Patricia can’t see so it’s not strange if she doesn’t believe her. What’s actually weird is that Amanda makes a big deal out of her mother not believing her, she’s old enough to understand that all that talking about fairies is not exactly ‘normal’.
Cali and her fairy friends Harper Emilyn and McKenna go to see her because they want to help her.
Turk owes money to a man and somehow wants to buy Patricia’s farm, charming her to get her to sell . The fairies play tricks on him in an attempt to get rid of him, but it’s not enough. McKenna comes up with the right plan: they should set Patricia up with Dylan and it’d be a win-win.
They make his hair and they change his clothes while he’s unconscious... he’s surprised but also pleased when Patricia tells him that he looks good.
They get along well from now on, and when Turk acts like a jerk raising his voice at Amanda she sends him away.
Mysterious and rather sinister Mr Green appears from nowhere to reclaim his money back.
Aleeda finds out everything and forbids them to see each other again. After Amanda’s grandmother dies, Patricia sells the property to Turk making Amanda very upset. Rightly so, I’d say, how could she? Anyway, Amanda finds her grandma’s diary of her days from when she was a child until she got married, saying how much she loved Aleeda for making it all happen, and when she got married she wondered if Aleeda had moved away because she didn’t see her anymore.
The farm actually belongs to Mr Green, not Turk, and he wants to take the horse away so Amanda rides him again into the forest. She tells Aleeda the truth: Aleeda had thought that ‘grandma’ had forgot about her but she hadn’t, she had simply grown older in that in-between age when they can’t see fairies.
The fairies try to help and when Mr Green tries to set fire to the farm Aleeda and all the fairies come to fight him off with arrows, and the question is finally settled when the sheriff comes to say that Patricia only owned her dad’s half, but Amanda owns her grandma’s half, so unless she signs too the sale is not valid, and then he arrests Mr Green for trying to burn it down.
And now the stupid ending: Amanda’s grandmother becomes a fairy, who knows why, and we find out that the fairy that all this time wasn’t ready to come out is actually her grandfather, who was waiting for his wife to join him. Patricia and Dylan can see it too, because Amanda told them to believe, apparently :-/ It’s an ending so horrible it ruins whatever this movie had. First of all, it’s not so easy to really believe something simply because you’re told to believe it, but anyway that couldn’t possibly be enough, because grandma always believed in her ‘fairy friends0 and she missed Aleeda a lot when she couldn’t see her anymore, so why couldn’t she? If it’s a simple matter of believing? Because it wasn’t until now, they said more than once that adults can’t see fairies, it’s not just a matter of ‘believing’ so it is stupid that Patricia and Dylan can see them now.
Also, for Amanda’s grandparents to become fairies is totally absurd and annoying, why should they? Everyone who dies becomes a fairy? No, just them, they’re the only elders around, but even if they were special for some reason - which is rather unfair to the rest of the world - the worst thing of all is that they didn’t show us fairy-grandma meeting Aleeda again, which at least could have been a nice moment, absurd but nice, but they didn’t :-/
Amanda-Emily Debowski
Patricia-Adrian Cowan
Cali-Winny Clarke
Emilyn-Emily Agard
Aleeda-Lora Burke
Mr Green-Graham Gauthier
Dylan-Gary McKenzie
McKenna-Mercedes Morris
Turk-Jeremy Ninaber
Harper-Rebecca Perry
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