Alice (1990 film)

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Alice

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Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by Robert Greenhut
Written by Woody Allen
Starring Mia Farrow
William Hurt
Joe Mantegna
Cinematography Carlo Di Palma
Distributed by Orion Pictures
Release date(s) December 25, 1990
Running time 102 minutes
Language English
Budget $12,000,000 (estimated)
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Alice is a 1990 film directed by Woody Allen and starring Joe Mantegna, Mia Farrow and Alec Baldwin. The film is loosely a reworking of Federico Fellini's 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits

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Alice Tate (Mia Farrow), a wealthy New Yorker, has been married for sixteen years to Doug Tate (William Hurt), with two children, but is dissatisfied. Her stockbroker husband ignores her. When she meets a handsome, married saxophonist Joe (Joe Mantegna) at a school function she finds herself attracted to him.

Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang (Keye Luke), an Asian herbalist who tells her that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs takes Alice out of her unhappy life and into a romantic fantasy. She settles issues with her relatives, a dead old boyfriend (Alec Baldwin) and even takes advice from a diva-like muse (Bernadette Peters), all in her fantasy-world.

Woody Allen received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, as well as a Writers Guild of America nomination. Mia Farrow received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical and won the National Board of Review Best Actress award.

In his New York Times review (December 25, 1990), Vincent Canby wrote: " 'Alice' is about one woman's tempest-tossed, giddy, herb-induced voyage of self-discovery. It is north-of-the-border magical realism -- Alice flies, she becomes invisible, she is another person. It is hilarious and romantic, serious and exuberantly satiric."

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Films directed by Woody Allen

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