Alice (1990 film)

Infobox Film
name = Alice


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Woody Allen
producer = Robert Greenhut
Jack Rollins
writer = Woody Allen
starring = Mia Farrow
Alec Baldwin
Blythe Danner
Judy Davis
William Hurt
Joe Mantegna
cinematography = Carlo Di Palma
editing = Susan E. Morse
distributor = Orion Pictures
released = December 25, 1990
runtime = 102 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget = $12 million
gross = $7,331,647
preceded_by = "Juliet of the Spirits"
imdb_id = 0099012

"Alice" is a 1990 film directed by Woody Allen and starring Joe Mantegna, Mia Farrow and Alec Baldwin. The film is a loose reworking of Federico Fellini's 1965 film "Juliet of the Spirits"

Plot

Alice Tate (Mia Farrow), a wealthy New Yorker, has been married for sixteen years to Doug Tate (William Hurt), with two children, but is dissatisfied. Her stockbroker husband ignores her. When she meets Joe (Joe Mantegna), a handsome, married saxophonist, at a school function, she finds herself attracted to him.

Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang (Keye Luke), an Asian herbalist who tells her that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs takes Alice out of her unhappy life and into a romantic fantasy. She settles issues with her relatives, a dead former boyfriend (Alec Baldwin) and even takes advice from a diva-like muse (Bernadette Peters), all in her fantasy-world.

Cast

*Mia Farrow as Alice Tate Smith
*Alec Baldwin as Ed
*Blythe Danner as Dorothy
*Judy Davis as Vicki
*William Hurt as Doug Tate
*Keye Luke as Dr. Yang
*Joe Mantegna as Joe
*Bernadette Peters as Muse
*Cybill Shepherd as Nancy Brill
*Patrick O'Neal as Mr. Tate
*Holland Taylor as Helen
*Rachel Miner as Young Alice Tate (12)
*Diane Salinger as Carol
*Bob Balaban as Sid Moscowitz
*Elle Macpherson as a model

Reception

Awards and nominations

Woody Allen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, as well as a Writers Guild of America nomination. Mia Farrow received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical and won the National Board of Review Best Actress award.

Critical response

In his "New York Times" review (December 25, 1990), Vincent Canby wrote: " 'Alice' is about one woman's tempest-tossed, giddy, herb-induced voyage of self-discovery. It is north-of-the-border magical realism -- Alice flies, she becomes invisible, she is another person. It is hilarious and romantic, serious and exuberantly satiric."

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