What Alice Found (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 38 Fresh: 26 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus:
A modest, nicely acted road movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 5, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Fed up with her life in New Hampshire, 18-year-old Alice (Emily Grace) gets in her car and heads for Florida to pursue her dreams of being a marine biologist and join a friend who is in college there. But she gets sidetracked after stopping at a rest stop where, according to middle-aged Good... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael C. Maronna, Justin Parkinson
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What we found is a bleak, but interesting look into a world where the line is blurred between good people and bad. Judith Ivey's performance is the real jewel of the film.
05/28/04
An almost constantly surprising coming-of-age film with a dark twist that manages to take the high road with what is well-exploited material.
05/20/04
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Assisted by the harsh immediacy of digital video, writer-director A. Dean Bell puts forth his material with utter objectivity.
04/22/04
It neither glamorizes nor demonizes truck-stop whoredom; it merely depicts it, with little of the internal strife that ought to accompany it.
04/05/04
The film's somewhat light-hearted tone is wholly inappropriate in what is, in essence, a story of sexual predators.
03/19/04
Ivey delivers a sassy, no-nonsense performance and Grace shows herself a sensitive young actress, but neither overcomes Bell's pretensions or digital-video limitations.
03/19/04
A fine merging of means, material and ego -- a nicely acted, simple little road movie vacuumed free of any indie scene smugness or self-satisfaction.
01/09/04
A solid character piece that deftly probes the complicity of both sides in a morally dubious relationship.
12/23/03
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Ivey is fascinating, cooing nonstop in a cozy Southern accent, friendly and accepting, but also observant and oddly unknowable. It's a performance that even gets better on second viewing.
12/19/03
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Bell forces us to see characters from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in a distinctly human light, neither ennobling nor pitying.
12/18/03
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