What Boogie Nights did for porn stars, What Alice Found does for truck-stop hookers
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12/17/03
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael C. Maronna
Director: A. Dean Bell
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Reviews for What Alice Found
The whole thing smacks resoundingly of student film, from the youthful protagonist to the road-y premise to the jejune fascination with trailer culture.
12/16/03
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12/08/03
a lesson on how a life-changing story arc makes a character-based drama work so well
12/05/03
The movie looks like TV from beginning to end, and accentuates the other major compromise of its meager budget.
12/05/03
Top CriticThis deep journey is worth experiencing.
12/05/03
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.
12/05/03
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.
12/04/03
What Alice Found, a small, finely wrought drama about a naïve young woman who gets lost on the American highway, gives that wonderfully salty New York stage actress Judith Ivey one of the chewiest roles of her career.
12/04/03
Top CriticThe screenplay by director Bell is packed with surprises, and the acting is excellent.
12/04/03
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.
12/04/03
Top CriticSandra, 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.
12/04/03
Top CriticIt's a modest, independent drama that turns out to be a gem!
12/03/03
Bell stays focused on the interstate milieu, but it's difficult to believe a frame of it.
12/02/03
Top CriticA fine debut performance from Emily Grace in a new spin on the road-and-buddy genre.
11/04/03
Heavy with self-importance and dolphin symbolism.
10/12/03
Features a compelling performance by Judith Ivey.
09/24/03
[A] refreshing road movie.
09/24/03
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