Still Alice

Name: Still Alice
Genre: Drama
Released: December 5, 2014
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Hunter Parrish, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart

2014

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 5, 2014 | PG-13

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Hunter Parrish, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart, Seth Gilliam, Shane McRae

Summary: Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a successful Columbia University linguistics professor happily married with three grown children, struggles to maintain her mind after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s.

Director: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 101 min

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David Hughes

Mar 2, 2015

Julianne Moore gives the performance of her career (no mean feat, given the strength of her previous work) in this heartbreaking yet life-affirming tale of a woman determined to hold onto her identity while under attack from a debilitating mental disease. Read full review

Steve Persall

Feb 11, 2015

For all of its movie-of-the-week mechanics, this is a deeply moving dramatization of what Alzheimer's does to mind and spirit, anchored by the finest performance, male or female, from any 2014 movie release. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Jan 19, 2015

Still Alice is undoubtedly a tough movie; it contains life-affirming moments but its perspective is what makes it unique. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Dec 3, 2014

Though shot in the stolidly inconspicuous style of a low-rated cable drama, Still Alice is rarely anything short of compelling, in part because its sense of progression and scale offers such a distinctively unsentimental take on the terminal-countdown tearjerker. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jan 15, 2015

For all the movie’s honesty, the reality of Alzheimer’s disease is a lot worse than what you see in Still Alice. Perhaps directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland made a calculation as to how much an audience can take. They were right. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Dec 5, 2014

With a combination of power and grace, Julianne Moore elevates Still Alice above its made-for-cable-television trappings, and delivers one of the more memorable performances of her career. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Dec 3, 2014

Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart's artful consideration of familial friction acerbated by disease, and vice versa, nearly saves Still Alice from the banality of its Lifetime-movie execution. Read full review

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MaxwellCho

Dec 6, 2014

Beautiful and powerful movie. A stripped back and realistic performance from Julianne Moore, yet it has as twice as much impact as any performance i have seen in a long time. Beautifully supported by a strong cast, the most powerful scenes are with Kristen Stewart, who plays theBeautiful and powerful movie. A stripped back and realistic performance from Julianne Moore, yet it has as twice as much impact as any performance i have seen in a long time. Beautifully supported by a strong cast, the most powerful scenes are with Kristen Stewart, who plays the free-spirited daughter that Alice has found the hardest to relate to due to their different career interests. Yet, it's Lydia who proves the most capable of supporting Alice in her time of need. There is really no need to go into any more detail. It's a simple story, well told. Sad (bring tissues) yet it is an important reminder of how lucky we are to have good health and how devastating alzheimer's can be. See it!… Expand

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DavidWarden

Feb 28, 2015

Another amazing film .

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vinicius96

Mar 9, 2018

Julianne Moore gives us a powerful performance. One of the best actress of all time!!!

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GreatMartin

Feb 10, 2015

“Still Alice” is a very difficult film to watch not because of the subject matter but because Julianne Moore inhabits the persona of Alice so you feel, and see, everything that is happening, and what will happen, to this woman.

Alice Howland is a very successful linguistic professor at“Still Alice” is a very difficult film to watch not because of the subject matter but because Julianne Moore inhabits the persona of Alice so you feel, and see, everything that is happening, and what will happen, to this woman.

Alice Howland is a very successful linguistic professor at Columbia University in New York who has written books on language and traveled the world teaching it. She and her equally successful husband, John (Alec Baldwin) live in a brownstone in which they have raised their three children, now on their own paths, and have a summer home on the shore. In everyway she is successful as a professional, a mother and a wife.

Very early in the film Alice, at the age of fifty, is diagnosed with early on set Alzheimer’s which it turns out is genetic and there is a 50 percent chance of their children contacting it and, after testing, one of the children tests positive. The screenwriters/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland dismiss this angle in the movie instead concentrating on Alice and Moore comes through with a devastating performance. By the end of the film you will know what it means to have Alzheimer’s, what and how it takes everything from you. Wordlessly, with a look, the changes in her face, the awareness of what she will lose before she loses it, is upsetting because we know what she had and she no longer does.

The film rightfully concentrates on Moore but the screenwriters don’t help her in not filling out the roles of her husband and children. We know her husband loves her because he tells her but Baldwin is a good enough actor to show us with little touches here and there. Her children, played by Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish, are normal, well adjusted children which at times can drive a parent crazy and there is one scene where Moore uses that old line, “….I can because I am your mother,” that has the audience laughing. The conflict between a mother and daughter is briefly touched on just as the sibling rivalry between sisters is but neither are fleshed out.

The film is not all sadness and tears, with little bits of humor here and there, but we share the few triumphs Alice has along the way just as in two scenes we are afraid to breathe.

For those who haven’t dealt with Alzheimer’s in their family this is a learning experience of what has happened with 45 million people in the world going through this debilitating disease and what their loved ones have to deal with.

Julianne Moore has deservedly earned 4 Oscar nominations along the way and with her 5th in “Still Alice” she is deserving of getting that statue that has eluded her.… Expand

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ChristopherEM

Apr 10, 2018

Still Alice es una película que nos muestra cómo las personas que tienen alzheimer viven su vida de a diario, que de poco a poco van olvidando cosas, al punto de no recordar naya ya. Sin duda, Julianne Moore tuvo un papel muy bueno al saber interpretar a una persona con esta enfermedad, susStill Alice es una película que nos muestra cómo las personas que tienen alzheimer viven su vida de a diario, que de poco a poco van olvidando cosas, al punto de no recordar naya ya. Sin duda, Julianne Moore tuvo un papel muy bueno al saber interpretar a una persona con esta enfermedad, sus gestos y sus acciones lo decían todo.… Expand

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netflic

Feb 23, 2015

It is a drama about how an extremely bright and relatively young person loses
her memory to Alzheimer disease. Julianne Moore is starring in this movie, and she is fantastic.
She carries the whole film; without her it would be just mediocre. No wonder she won Oscar's Best Actress for thisIt is a drama about how an extremely bright and relatively young person loses
her memory to Alzheimer disease. Julianne Moore is starring in this movie, and she is fantastic.
She carries the whole film; without her it would be just mediocre. No wonder she won Oscar's Best Actress for this role.
She deserved it.… Expand

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RockWolf

Feb 28, 2015

I want my money back. This was the most depressing film we attended this year or last. There was no real emotions shown by the actors or actress. The film used may be recyclable. Having family the suffers from metal illness from aging this movie did not speak to that or the future.

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