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| Orion Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 1990 |
Starring:
Billy Taylor, Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow, Holland Taylor, Joe Mantegna, Julie Kavner, June Squibb, Marceline Hugot, Matthew H. Williamson, Mia Farrow, William Hurt
Summary:
A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
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It's a brilliant film, written tightly enough so that practically every word is important. Add a large cast that blends into a perfect ensemble, plus direction that gives every shot some meaning, and you can't ask much more. [25 Jan 1991, p.3F]
Farrow is hilarious when she's aggressively pursuing Mantegna; amusingly dumbstruck when she's fighting off a group of male partygoers (one of the secret potions makes them fall in love with her); and touching when she's trying to reconcile with her sister (Blythe Danner) or sell her lame script ideas to an old friend who works for the networks (Cybill Shepherd). The performance is a triumph of sensitivity to rapid mood swings that stops just short of turning the movie into The Three Faces of Alice. [25 Jan 1991, p.22]
Alice is certainly handsome to look at, and as usual Allen's camera is placed impeccably -- if he's overrated as a screenwriter, Woody Allen has yet to receive his due as a director. Still, what's wrong with Alice is in the script, and Allen wrote that, too. [25 Jan 1991, p.G5]
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