Alice

1990
PG-13
1h 46m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

16K

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A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

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Comedy Romance

A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

16K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 7 nominations total

Trivia
Sean Young filmed a small role, but it was later cut. She had been deleted from Woody Allen's previous film Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) as well.

Goofs
When Thelonious Monk's version of "Darn That Dream" appears on the soundtrack, the LP sleeve of "Monk's Dream" is shown, implying that Alice and Joe are listening to it. However, the tune is not featured on that album.

However, implications are not necessarily fact; it might be that Alice and Joe had been listening to several Monk albums and had not been meticulous in returning the discs to the appropriate sleeves.

Quotes
Dr. Yang: Love... Love is a most complex emotion. Human beings unpredictable. No logic to emotions. Without logic, there is no rational thought. Without rational, thought there can be much romance, but much suffering.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Green Card/Almost an Angel/Hamlet/Come See the Paradise/Alice (1990)

Soundtracks
Limehouse Blues
Written by Philip Braham & Douglas Furber
Performed by Jackie Gleason
Courtesy of Capitol Records, Inc.
By arrangement with CEMA Special Markets

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Enjoyable romp

Next to the Front, this contains Woody Allen's best ending. There's one striking visual image in the plot I still can't get out my head: Mia is cheating on William Hurt with Joseph Mantegna and the 2 of them are over at Mantegna's apartment, while a glorious downpour crashes against a huge glass window behind them. The sound of the rain hitting the window compliments their nervous dialogue perfectly. One of Farrow's nicest performances (the Purple Rose of Cairo is her most heartbreaking). And where else are you going to see invisibility in the same story as Mother Theresa? One of Allen's better cast jobs, too. Even the smallest roles are exquisite. Gwen Vernon as Farrow's old time movie star mother is sublime. And Bernadette Peters makes a great wise cracking muse.