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A 2003 film written by John August and directed by [[Tim Burton]], based on the novel by Daniel Wallace.

 

Will Bloom, a journalist (Billy Crudup), returns home with his wife to visit his dying father Edward (elder played by Albert Finney, younger played by [[Ewan McGregor]]). He is displeased to find that his father continues to tell the same old [[Tall Tale|tall tales]] he's told all his life, and has now enraptured his wife. Still, he's determined to [[Tell Me About My Father|write his father's story]], and searches for some of the people his father crossed paths with. The further he searches, the more he finds that those stories might not be as far-fetched as they once seemed.

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* [[Anachronic Order]]: Sort of. Edward's childhood encounter with the Witch is one of the first stories that he tells Will. We later learn that {{spoiler|she was inspired by the adult Jenny, who began living alone after Spectre dried up and Edward rejected her}}. Because of the [[Unreliable Narrator]], it's hard to tell where/if the latter events fit into Edward's tall tales, but it's still Lampshaded by Will.

{{quote|'''Will''': Well, logically {{spoiler|you couldn't be the Witch}} because she was old when he was young.