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Alice's Restaurant (1969) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 23, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 51 minutes
Country USA
Studio Florin Productions, United Artists
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Other Titles
• Alice's Restaurant
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Police, Coming Of Age, Cult Classic, Suspense, Drugs, Satire, Marriage, School / Campus
Tagline: Every Generation Has A Story To Tell.
Plot: Arthur Penn's film, based on Arlo Guthrie's famous song of the same name, takes an exuberant look at the 1960s counterculture, draft dodging, social intolerance, law enforcement, and the hardships of growing older. Like the 18-minute song itself, ALICE'S RESTAURANT follows Arlo Guthrie (played by Arlo Guthrie) as he gets kicked out of school and travels back east to visit his old friends Alice and Ray Brock. After a huge Thanksgiving feast, Arlo is assigned the duty of disposing of the garbage. When he finds the local dump closed, he tosses the mound of garbage over a cliff, which leads to his arrest for littering. When Arlo is eventually drafted into the army and is filling out the paperwork, he finds a simple question on the back of one of the forms: Kid, have you ever been arrested? Arlo quickly discovers that the U.S. Army has a very low opinion of litterbugs. The rambling song "Alice's Restaurant" was Guthrie's greatest success. The film version maintains the freewheeling spirit of the song while adding some new layers of character development and subplots, with Alice becoming a more central character to the story. Arlo Guthrie gives a fine performance as himself, and Pat Quinn is outstanding as the aging but bright-eyed Alice. Penn's direction balances a wild,
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Arthur Penn
Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man, The Train |
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| Cast |
Arlo Guthrie
Woodstock, Roadside Prophets, Renaldo and Clara | | James Broderick
Dog Day Afternoon, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Group | Pete Seeger
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack, The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time | Lee Hays
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time | | | |
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Arlo Guthrie
Woodstock, Roadside Prophets, Renaldo and Clara |
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