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Still Alice

2014 Directed by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Julianne Moore Alec Baldwin Kristen Stewart Kate Bosworth Shane McRae Hunter Parrish Seth Gilliam Stephen Kunken Erin Darke Daniel Gerroll Quincy Tyler Bernstine Maxine Prescott Orlagh Cassidy Rosa Arredondo Zillah Glory Cat Lynch Eha Urbsalu Victoria Cartagena

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Review by Laura Raud ★★★★ 12

Julianne Moore is probably the most beautiful person who has ever lived on this earth.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 11

+1 to the list of films that I will never watch again...

Edit: I found this to be an incredibly difficult experience. It's probably the most realistic look at Alzheimer's that I've ever seen, being so grounded in reality and incorporating contemporary themes such as the growing influence of technology on the world of health and medicine. As someone who had to stand by and watch and his grandmother deteriorate from Alzheimer's, I found this film emotionally stirring and relatable. And though I'm a big fan of Amour - it's almost certainly an even stronger piece of cinema than Still Alice - I think that this is a more, as I put it previously, "realistic" look at the disease. A very frightening film, and one that I will most likely never re-visit.
Review by Naughty ★★★★ 8

More terrifying than any horror film out there! The subject of alzheimer's disease hits close to home as my mother had been diagnosed with it and is living in a memory care facility! The film got the audience up close and personal with the disease and you cry a tear or two but the good news is the audience can get up at the end and walk away from it pretty much unscathed! Families with loved ones affected by this devastating disease don't have that option! Extremely difficult subject matter that weighs heavily on my mind in more ways than one for one day I too could find myself suffering my mother's same fate!

Julianne Moore's tour de force performance was absolutely phenomenal! While the film didn't delve deep enough into the abyss I applaud the film for showing the disease through the victims point of view!
Review by CinemaClown ★★★½ 8

Championed by a truly memorable performance from one of the most beautiful, admirable & incredibly talented actresses of our time, Still Alice is a poignant, melancholic & heartbreaking tale that's neatly crafted & sensibly narrated but what truly makes it an emotionally resonant & visually engaging cinema is the fabulous lead show by the lovely Julianne Moore.

Based on Lisa Genova's novel of the same name, Still Alice tells the story of Alice Howland; a happily married linguistic professor with three children, who finds out that she is suffering from an early onset Alzheimer's disease. The plot covers the struggle she & her family undergoes during the progression of the disease as she slowly begins forgetting words, locations & even her loved ones.

Written & directed by…
Review by cameron morewood ★★ 3

Films that tackle diseases, whether physical or mental, tend to walk a fine line between succeeding as a character study and devolving into a shamelessly didactic after school special. For a significant percentage of its duration, Still Alice and the harrowingly magnificent Julianne Moore, commit to Alice and her character with refreshing earnestness. It is not until the third act the audience begins to be bombarded with sermons about how difficult it is to live with Alzheimers and how we, as a society, need to better address this issue and things like it. These are fine messages to promote, of course, but narrative cinema is not the public forum. Message movies are acceptable, but they cannot abandon their artistry in…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 2

60/100

Besides a heartrending, harrowing, and profoundly affecting performance from Julianne Moore; Still Alice is inevitably uninteresting. With awkward and poorly performed family dynamics, direction that falls into a category of elegant mediocrity, and a repetitive score; only Julianne Moore, strong supporting performances by Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart, and some quieter emotional beats save Still Alice from becoming completely bland.

Recent reviews

Review by sleep deprived ana ★★★★★

i'm not crying, you are
Review by Christian Alec ★★★★

I still can't get over how incredibly sad and personal this movie is to me. While watching it, I found myself having to tell T. about my own experience with my grandmother having dementia at the current time and just how I've experienced it first hand when we visit her. Julianne Moore has a very tough role here having to transform herself mentally from scene to scene as we watch her mind slowly disintegrate.
Review by Toby ★★★★★

Movie #23 of August 2017 Scavenger Hunt
Task #26: Watch a film about a teacher.

As emotional as movies make me sometimes, not all of them actually make me cry. Still Alice made me cry. The raw and real performance by Julianne Moore as Alice is easily one of my favorite best actress performances that I have ever seen. The fact that some people say it was a career win for her, instead of for the performance makes no sense to me after seeing it for myself.

Still Alice is an amazing movie that shows the powerful impact of alzheimer's disease on a person's life as well as those around them. It was a phenomenal movie, made only better by an amazing performance.
Review by David Antonio Velásquez Leal ★★★★

¿Que pasa cuando perdemos nuestros recuerdos? ¿Que pasa cuando todo a nuestro alrededor nos parece extraños? ¿Que pasa cuando el yo es atrapado por un agujero negro de olvido?

Esto es lo que explora este filme a través de la experiencia de su personaje principal, Alice, quien presenta síntomas tempranos de alzheimer.

Una historia muy emocional e intima, bien contada y que evita el melodrama.
Review by solstrale ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The movie, based on the book with the same title, is about a woman who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The acting in the movie is well done. The storyline is wisely written and adapted.

Alice Howland is a linguistics professor at Columbia University. She is at the age of 50, happily married to John and has 3 children named Anna, Tom and Lydia. She starts to forget the words and lines, and to get lost while jogging. She feels worried and goes to see a neurologist. She gets diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer’s disease. The neurologist tells her that her condition is rare at her age and the cause is genetic factors. So her children also take the test,…
Review by Alan Orth ★★★★★

Devastating! Julianne Moore was excellent and definitely carried the film, but the supporting cast was great. Mental health issues are terrifying and I think we should study the shit out of them to try to understand them better.
Review by Jordan ★★★½

Alice is no saint, and Julianne Moore balances all of the levels of her character masterfully, even if the film is manipulative.
Review by anna ★★★★

this is literally one of my worst fears personified, the thought of losing my memory is what compels me to keep a journal & try to replicate it to reflect my life, trying to create some tangible out of the passing of time.
Review by ella ★★★★★

this is the kind of that makes me want to go out there and live a little, every time I feel down I watch this.
Julianne' performance is so remarkable