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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexuality, nudity and language

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Dramas

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... 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 Samaritans Sandra (Judith Ivey) and Bill (Bill Raymond), someone apparently punctured her tire. Bill changes the tire for her, and the couple offers to let her follow them on the road to prevent further danger--but after her engine burns out completely several miles later, she has no choice but to hitch a southbound ride with her newfound guardians. Their unusual kindness becomes increasingly suspect, though, when she discovers that Sandra is a truck stop prostitute and Bill is her pimp. Once her initial shock dissipates, though, shy Alice learns that by following Sandra's lead, she can make as much money in a few minutes as she's used to making in a week. With a grainy, digital-video look, A. Dean Bell's frank and surprising road movie is likely to win over all but the least adventurous or most jaded viewer. Ivey is superb and Grace--in a fine debut performance--expertly embodies wide-eyed naiveté. A well-chosen soundtrack enhances the visuals. [More]

Starring: Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael C. Maronna

Starring: Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael C. Maronna, Justin Parkinson

Director: A. Dean Bell

Director: A. Dean Bell
Screenwriter: A. Dean Bell
Producer: Richard Connors
Composer: DJ Wally
Studio: Castle Hill Productions

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

This amateur film looks more like a TV show than a movie.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
03/20/05
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
09/26/04
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

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.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
05/28/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

It plays like a walk on the wild side dreamed up in a Starbucks.

Full Review Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram | comment Comment
05/21/04
Scott Von Doviak
Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
05/20/04
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Dallas Morning News
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Assisted by the harsh immediacy of digital video, writer-director A. Dean Bell puts forth his material with utter objectivity.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
04/22/04
Laura Kelly
Laura Kelly
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/12/04
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

Candidly unsentimental yet utterly human.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
04/09/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

It neither glamorizes nor demonizes truck-stop whoredom; it merely depicts it, with little of the internal strife that ought to accompany it.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
04/05/04
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

The film's somewhat light-hearted tone is wholly inappropriate in what is, in essence, a story of sexual predators.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
03/19/04
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
03/19/04
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
01/09/04
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

There's something fresh and honest here.

Full Review Source: Nitrate Online | comment Comment
01/01/04
Elias Savada
Elias Savada
Nitrate Online

This digitally-shot feature never seems aware of its subjects.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
12/28/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A solid character piece that deftly probes the complicity of both sides in a morally dubious relationship.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/23/03
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/19/03
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Sweet, suspenseful, funny, poignant -- and adult.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/19/03
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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A modest but pungent slice of interstate life.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
12/19/03
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Bell forces us to see characters from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in a distinctly human light, neither ennobling nor pitying.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
12/18/03
Scott Foundas
Scott Foundas
L.A. Weekly
 
 
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