How #MeToo Movement Set Stage for Laura Dern’s ‘The Tale’ About Child Sex Abuse (Video)

Sundance 2018: Common plays the fiancé of a sexual abuse victim who has hidden her story for years

Director Jennifer Fox and the starry cast of her Sundance movie “The Tale” believe the moment is right for her disturbing drama child sexual abuse.

“When we started to produce this script, which was five years ago, I mean we were way out on a limb,” director Jennifer Fox told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven in Sundance.

“Now with the MeToo movement, we are so blessed to be coming out at a moment when people can actually take this story and begin to grapple with the truth about child sexual abuse.”

Common and the cast of the chilling sexual abuse drama “The Tale” talked about how to break the culture of silence.

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