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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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20257/10
At the ripe old age of fifty, renowned American linguist “Alice” (Julianne Moore) is at the top of her game and looking forward to a married life with three grown up children and a grand-child. Then she starts noticing that she is becoming a little forgetful. Those climbing the stairs then forgetting why you went up in the first place moments start to become more regular. She can’t recall the words for her lectures and presentations, indeed she can’t always even recall the topic she is supposed to be speaking about. These aren’t complete memory blackouts, but they concern her enough to go to doctor who confirms that she has early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her husband (Alec Baldwin) and her children rally around her, they do what they can, but in the end it is the distressing dismantling of a life that Moore presents quite poignantly here as her character’s illness worsens and it’s effects on her family resonate quite profoundly. The children themselves prove quite useful in portraying the differing responses to the illness, with independently-minded daughter “Lydia” (Kristen Stewart) who is already having a tempestuous relationship with her mother being one of the powerful litmus tests of
Read the whole review on TMDB - mattwilde123on TMDB · Mar 20177/10
'Still Alice' is a film that boasts a remarkable central performance from Julianne Moore. It tells the story of a University linguistics professor (Moore) as she is diagnosed a rare form of Auzheimer's disease. Richard Glatzer's direction of the movie can be viewed as a parallel to his own life and personal struggle as he lived with ALS disease. 'Still Alice' is full of emotive shots as the characters show care and support to Moore as she tries to continue juggling her career and family life with the disease. Aspects such as the music and cinematography is given a very straight-forward approach to allow the actors' performances to tell the story and to add a true to life direction. Based on the novel of the same name written by Lisa Genova, the screenplay is very faithfully adapted. The film really focuses on the story and the dialogue between the characters and some scenes and interactions are extremely moving thanks to how well it is written. Julianne Moore is perfect as the main character. She portrays her struggle with the disease with so much inner strength and dignity. Moore is supported by a solid cast such as Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart but are outshone by her brillian
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Cast
- Julianne MooreAlice Howland
- Kate BosworthAnna Howland-Jones
- Shane McRaeCharlie Howland-Jones
- Hunter ParrishTom Howland
- Alec BaldwinJohn Howland
- Seth GilliamFrederic Johnson
- Kristen StewartLydia Howland
- Stephen KunkenDr. Benjamin
- Erin DarkeJenny
- Daniel GerrollEric Wellman
Crew
- Wash WestmorelandDirector
- Richard GlatzerDirector
- Wash WestmorelandScreenplay
- Richard GlatzerScreenplay
- Lisa GenovaNovel
- Denis LenoirDirector of Photography
- Ilan EshkeriOriginal Music Composer
- Nicolas ChaudeurgeEditor
- Lex LutzusProducer
- James BrownProducer
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