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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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Reviews for What Alice Found
Sandra, Bill and Alice emerge not as a newfound family exactly, nor as villains and victims, but as three ever-vulnerable human beings doing the best they can to survive.
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.
The screenplay by director Bell is packed with surprises, and the acting is excellent.
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.
It so deftly tweaks your presumptions at every turn that you feel, by the end, that you've traveled somewhere -- and not just along several southbound interstates.
A fine debut performance from Emily Grace in a new spin on the road-and-buddy genre.
a lesson on how a life-changing story arc makes a character-based drama work so well
Assisted by the harsh immediacy of digital video, writer-director A. Dean Bell puts forth his material with utter objectivity.
What Boogie Nights did for porn stars, What Alice Found does for truck-stop hookers
Newcomer Grace seems born to the part of an unformed young woman whose character cries out to be shaped, but it's Ivey's unobtrusive skill that shapes their onscreen relationship into something thoroughly convincing.
A rough-hewn, modest little road movie of sorts, elevated by a trio of compelling performances and a desire to take the narrative road less traveled.
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