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Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
While shaggy, boorish young American Jamie is traveling through Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, the famed San Pedro cactus. But her free-spirited personality quickly clashes with his self-absorption...
8 January 1982, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1979, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
July 11, 2016
Crystal Fairy is all about that uneasy destination: never in sight but always on the edge of perception.April 28, 2015
The summer of cokehead Michael Cera continues.July 26, 2013
Consistently funny and fascinating.February 01, 2014
Deadpan funny as a comedy.July 26, 2013
Shot on the fly, while Silva, Cera & Co. were waiting to make another movie, Crystal Fairy ends up on a beach, and ends up resonating with a pesky charm.August 01, 2013
[Cera] has transformed himself from one of the most irritating actors of his generation to one of the best.July 25, 2013
Part drug comedy, part psychological drama, the movie is slight, but only superficially so.July 26, 2013
While the pleasures of Silva's trippy road-trip movie are mostly minor, it still does something major by eliciting Cera's boldest performance to date.June 08, 2016
Low-key, naturalistic and original, Sebastian Silva's study of two Americans finding their way in Chile is an often funny, always compelling journey that rings true.January 22, 2014
Silva fails to cook up anything more than unfulfilled potential in this half-baked movie.August 01, 2013
Jamie and Crystal Fairy, though slightly exaggerated for comic effect, are still truer representations of gringo backpackers than I've ever seen on film.April 08, 2014
It's a messy film, but it hits more than it misses, sometimes landing on something emotionally resonant.