Alice
"Devastatingly comic! Alice calls for celebration!" -The New York Times
For 16 years, Alice Tate (Farrow) has been ignored by her husband (Hurt), spoiled by wealth and tranquilzed by boredom. But when she unexpectedly falls for sexy musician (Mantegna) and impulsively consults a mysterious Chinese herbalist for advice, Alice begins a madcap journey into a strange new world of possibilities. But as she begins to realize who she is and what she values, Alice must also confront her deepest fears and decide how far she'll go for love...and what she'll risk to change her destiny.
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An average film - sal33
Wasn't really a bad film; wasn't really a good film. This is territory that Allen has covered better and more extensively in other films.
The film I have to say was pretty predictable because Woody Allen has done this before. Also I really felt no empathy for Alice the main character. And I think that was the major flaw of this film.
Maybe if Allen would have delved deeper into her motives and did not make her so self-involved, we could have felt some empathy for her.Alice - Derekstar
"You have a nice personality, and you like sweaters." Yes she does. Yes she does. This is alright, but it's kind of boring at times. It has its serious subject matter, kind of like Another Woman from 1988, but loosens up a bit with the magical Chinese healer. It's more fun than funny, but it's certainly better than some other Allen stuff from this era. Some of it. Here's the thing though. I've never seen a movie where Mia Farrow doesn't annoy the shit out of me. She's the worst.Sorta Feminist Allen - FilmJunkie
A delightful Woody Allen mystical comedy about Alice (Mia Farrow) an upper crust New York wife who is searching for meaning in her life. She comes across Dr. Yang (Keye Luke, Master Po from 1986's 'Kung Fu: The Movie', in his final film role) an herbalist who provides her with the herbs to find the answers to all the questions she has always had about her life.
She discovers that her marriage is failing, and her husband (William Hurt) is not the man she thought he was. She falls for a sax player, Joe (Joe Mantegna), and begins an affair that shocks her so-called friends. She makes up with her liberal sister (Blythe Danner) and finds that there was a friendship there all along, but she hadn't been listening. She sees the ghost of her pre-marriage boyfriend (Alec Baldwin) and spends time getting to relive the moments she had hidden deep within her. She tries to write and finds her muse (Bernadette Peters) who plainly speaks and causes her to come to terms with who her mother really was.
Allen achieves these effects with dramatic stage lighting, and a constantly moving camera that allows us to seem the voyeur just as Alice is when she takes the herb that makes her invisible. This is a well made, interesting and somewhat feminist film about finding out what's really important.
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An average film - sal33
Wasn't really a bad film; wasn't really a good film. This is territory that Allen has covered better and more extensively in other films.
The film I have to say was pretty predictable because Woody Allen has done this before. Also I really felt no empathy ...Alice - Derekstar
"You have a nice personality, and you like sweaters." Yes she does. Yes she does. This is alright, but it's kind of boring at times. It has its serious subject matter, kind of like Another Woman from 1988, but loosens up a bit with the magical Chinese healer. ...Sorta Feminist Allen - FilmJunkie
A delightful Woody Allen mystical comedy about Alice (Mia Farrow) an upper crust New York wife who is searching for meaning in her life. She comes across Dr. Yang (Keye Luke, Master Po from 1986's 'Kung Fu: The Movie', in his final film role) an herbalist ...