posted on: October 19, 2020
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia University, celebrates her 50th birthday with her physician husband John and their three adult children. Introductions were made to Dr. Mary Sano, the director of Alzheimer's disease research at Mount Sinai Hospital. [14], Still Alice had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014. Directed by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland. The film stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease shortly after her 50th birthday. [13] Post-production on the film was completed ten days before its premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. As the once-vibrant woman struggles to hang on to her sense of self for as long as possible, Alice's three grown children must watch helplessly as their mother disappears more and more with each passing day. As her disease advances, she becomes unable to give focused lectures and loses her job. Alice meets the Cheshire-Cat in the forest. The film was named among the year's top ten independent films by the National Board of Review. Sort by . On February 20, it was given a wide release, expanding to 765 theaters across the U.S. All that begins to change when she strangely starts to forget words and then more. As Alice's memory begins to fade, she daydreams of her mother and sister, who died in a car crash when she was a teenager. Alice is introduced to the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon. Alice joins a game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts. [34] Richard Roeper, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, described Moore as giving "a four-star performance in a two-star movie", drawing attention to the "intrusive" score and the "maddeningly overwrought and heavy-handed" storytelling. [11], The production's $4 million budget[12] was funded by the French financier BSM Studio. [23] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described Moore's portrayal of Alice as "convincing, disturbing and personal",[24] while Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty cited it as being "among her most devastating performances". | Only after a deceptively innocent slip of the tongue, a short-term memory loss during a lecture, and a disorientation attack inside the campus will it become clear that Alice, indeed, is suffering from this hereditary disease. John, unable to watch his wife continue to deteriorate, moves to Minnesota. Within three days of the leak, Still Alice had been downloaded by an estimated 103,832 unique IP addresses. Dealing with the effects of the disease will affect all the Howlands, but beyond Alice herself, it is John on who the greatest effect will be felt as Alice's primary caregiver and as he and Alice have to make decisions affecting their lives, both personally and professionally. She becomes lost searching for the bathroom in her own home and does not recognize Lydia after seeing her perform in a play.. Taglines With some difficulty, she finds the pills and is about to swallow them, but when she is interrupted by the arrival of her caregiver, she drops the pills on the floor and forgets what she was doing. Alice fans herself with the White Rabbit's fan and shrinks again. Overall, the film grossed $18,754,371 over 14 weeks in American theaters. [5], Julianne Moore was Glatzer and Westmoreland's first choice for the lead role. Still Alice. 25 Jun 2019 - 3:34pm. [29] The Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan attributed the film's success to Moore and Stewart's ability "to keep things honest" despite parts of it seeming "contrived and overly familiar". When words begin to escape her and she starts becoming lost on her daily jogs, Alice must come face-to-face with a devastating diagnosis: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. [2][6] Moore prepared for the role over four months, watching documentaries about Alzheimer's disease. [4] The score was composed by Ilan Eshkeri, who wanted to work on Still Alice because of his experience with people affected by Alzheimer's disease in his personal life. [7] Moore suggested Alec Baldwin to play Alice's husband, since they had previously worked together on the sitcom 30 Rock. 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