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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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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

The whole thing smacks resoundingly of student film, from the youthful protagonist to the road-y premise to the jejune fascination with trailer culture.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
12/16/03
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

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

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

The movie looks like TV from beginning to end, and accentuates the other major compromise of its meager budget.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
12/05/03
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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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

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

Bell stays focused on the interstate milieu, but it's difficult to believe a frame of it.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
12/02/03
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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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

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

Heavy with self-importance and dolphin symbolism.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
10/12/03
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

This deep journey is worth experiencing.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
12/05/03
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12/06/05
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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.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
12/04/03
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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

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

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

The screenplay by director Bell is packed with surprises, and the acting is excellent.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
12/04/03
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

There's something fresh and honest here.

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