Alice's Restaurant (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 31, 2015
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Arlo Guthrie | |
Performer: | James Broderick, Pat Quinn, M. Emmet Walsh, Tina Chen & Pete Seeger | |
Directed by | Arthur Penn | |
Edited by | Dede Allen | |
Music by | Arlo Guthrie | |
Screenplay by | Arthur Penn & Venable Herndon | |
Story by | Arlo Guthrie | |
Produced by | Hillard Elkins & Joseph Manduke | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Nebbia |
Entertainment Reviews:
There are occasional flashes of wry humor and some rib-tickling sequences. But they are all too few.
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Variety
[Penn] has transformed a charming shaggy-dog story into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
To his credit, Penn refused to romanticize his subjects, and the film stands as a fairly accurate chronicle of the times.
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TV Guide
Penn's genius overtakes the dropout romance, like a final post-bacchanal hangover that suggests liberation as an El Dorado dream.
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Village Voice
in spite of the clowning of Arlo Guthrie [Alice's Restaurant] is one of the more depressing movies I've seen lately, so much more so than Easy Rider, because confusion and passivity are more demoralizing than violence.
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The New York Review of Books
Penn's strong sympathy with the outsider and anti-Establishment stance comes across in a film that appealed to those who could identify with this communal hippie haven, but now seems too naive and distant.
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Film4
Rating: 2/5 --
Not nearly as good as everyone keeps telling you that it is.
Juicy Cerebellum
Product Description:
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, fun-loving spirit with frank seriousness to make for a multi-layered and moving film.
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, fun-loving spirit with frank seriousness to make for a multi-layered and moving film.
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- Sales Rank: 22,802
- UPC: 887090095006
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