Alice's Restaurant
by Arthur Penn
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Actor: Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Lee Hays, Patricia Quinn (II), Pete SeegerDirector: Arthur Penn
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Alice's Restaurant
DVD Review: Alice's Restaurant
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie. Brought back memories from the 60's. Arlo is so funny. Really love this one!!!DVD Review: fine movie despite a few minor flaws
Summary: 4 Stars
Alice's Restaurant is based on the song of the same name by Arlo Guthrie; and although it's not the best movie I've ever seen it's far from being the worst. The plot moves along fairly well; they could have edited the first hour a little bit more to make the action tighter; the second part moves along at a much better pace. Some of the actors did a great job; other actors were not so convincing. However, the cinematography and the choreography are very strong; and the movie overall is entertaining.
When the action starts, we meet young Arlo Guthrie who's bouncing around having some adventures. He goes to college but he finds it's not for him; and he has a brush with the law after he gets thrown through a window for the crime of having long hair! Worse yet, his father Woody Guthrie (played by Joseph Boley) is dying of a rare neurological disorder in a New York hospital. Arlo splits his time between visiting friends Alice and Ray (Patricia Quinn and James Broderick) who buy a church in Massachusetts and New York where he visits his father in the hospital.
Ray and Alice get some people to help renovate the church into a home with a restaurant in back (thus we have Alice's Restaurant) and the church takes on a beautiful transformation. Unfortunately, a love triangle complicates things between Alice, Ray and a young man named Shelly (Michael McClanathan).
Shortly before Thanksgiving time, a few key events happen. First, Ray and Alice reconcile after a brief breakup--and Ray surprises Alice when he tells her he's invited "a few" other people for Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving turns into a banquet for tons of people although a good time is had by all; and Arlo and his friend Roger (Geoff Outlaw) innocently dump the garbage at the bottom of a ravine where a lot of garbage already lies--after all, what can you do when you need to dump a ton of garbage and the town dump is closed for Thanksgiving? This creates an unexpected problem for Arlo and Roger; they are arrested by Officer "Obie" (William Obanhein) and the local police have a field day using all their equipment to document the biggest "crime" to hit Stockbridge in nearly 50 years. After Alice gets them out of jail, they must pay a fine and pick up the garbage.
And then Arlo gets his draft notice--he must report to a military screening post on Whitehall Street in New York for a physical and more. When they find out that he was arrested for littering and that he thinks little of it, their reaction is remarkable!
Of course, there's already plenty more that I've left out (believe it or not) and there are questions that remain. Ray and Alice struggle to make their relationship work--will they stay together? Will Arlo be inducted into the military? What about the girl that Arlo likes--her name is Mari-chan (Tina Chen). Will she return Arlo's affection? What about Officer Obie--what happens at Arlo and Roger's trial that could derail his "prosecution" case against Arlo and Roger for littering? Watch and find out!
We do indeed get a commentary by Arlo; and that's grand. There's also a marvelous cameo by the great Pete Seeger who plays and sings along with Arlo in Woody's hospital room.
Alice's Restaurant isn't as well edited as I hoped it would be; the story line has unnecessary complications. Nevertheless, it does explore the issues of life, death, hope, loss, love and more. I recommend this film for people interested in these meaningful issues; and people who want a nostalgic look back at the 1960's would do well to get this DVD.
DVD Review: I Don't Get It
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw this movie today on TCM. They say that making a movie is expensive and a lot of hard work. If that is true, then never was more effort expended to make a film about people loafing around and doing nothing.
Was the movie a profile of a battered woman? (Alice)
There is a scene where, during an argument, Alice is called the B word, and then slapped by a man. No one in the movie seems bothered by it, and a jolly and goofy wedding ensues. A major flaw in continuity maybe? Or maybe it's Art, but the point is lost on me.
And Sneer, Sneer, Sneer. Arlo Guthrie Sneers at everything.
DVD Review: Arlo Guthrie is my fave
Summary: 5 Stars
My 12 year old son and I loved this movie. It's such a touching timely movie. Arlo Guthrie is amazing.DVD Review: Old Hippie's review!
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this movie when it came out in 1969.It sure was not like I remembered it but I do forget some things from that time in my life. The quality of the DVD was great...the service was great and it got here when it was said to arrive...I was pleased with the transaction. ken
Description of Alice's Restaurant
"It is hard to imagine a more beautiful movie" (Time) than this critically acclaimed chronicle of hippie life during the late 1960s, which garnered the acclaimed director of Bonnie and Clyde his second Oscar(r) nomination*. Based on the song by folk music troubadour Arlo Guthrie, son of legendary "Dust Bowl" balladeer Woody Guthrie, this tribute film to "the lost generation" features memorable scenes with other folk artists like Pete Seeger, who join Arlo in song to make a profound statement about war, protest and change. In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside of the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an incident at Alice's Restaurant plays a pivotal role inArlo's avoidance of the draft, it sends him down a road that he will consider a small price to pay to keep his freedom and his beliefs. *Arthur Penn: Director; Alice's Restaurant (1969); Bonnie and Clyde (1967)You can get anything you want there, or so went Arlo Guthrie's song, a lengthy monologue about a Thanksgiving dinner and how its aftermath kept Guthrie out of the Vietnam-era draft. Arthur Penn's movie version, which stars Guthrie, James Broderick, and Pat Quinn, has a shambling, good-natured feel, much like Guthrie's epic tall tale. But as it follows Guthrie's adventures (he gets arrested for improper disposal of Thanksgiving garbage and the arrest renders him unfit for military service, in the draft board's eyes), it also examines the freewheeling nature of relationships in that period--and the toll that freedom took on those relationships. Guthrie is a natural performer, particularly funny during the draft board sequence; but the heart of the film is Quinn and Broderick's troubled marriage. --Marshall Fine
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