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Still Alice Movie Review

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Review for the film " Still Alice"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 41 Minutes

Certificate: UA

Released: 05-12-2014

Genre: Drama

Similar To: Lying And Stealing, Tupperware Unsealed, Somewhere Beautiful, White Boy Rick

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CAST & CREW

Alec Baldwin

Stephen Kunken

Maria Shriver

Julianne Moore

Kate Bosworth

Kristen Stewart

Ilan Eshkeri

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Producer:

James Brown

Lex Lutzus

Pamela Koffler

Music Director:

Ilan Eshkeri

Editor:

Nicolas Chaudeurge

Director:

Richard Glatzer

Wash Westmoreland

Supporting Actress:

Julianne Moore

Kate Bosworth

Kristen Stewart

Costume Designer:

Stacey Battat

Co-Producer:

Declan Baldwin

Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns

Director of Photography:

Denis Lenoir

Executive Producer:

Celine Rattray

Marie Savare

Christine Vachon

Emilie Georges

Maria Shriver

Nicholas Shumaker

Trudie Styler

Line Producer:

Lynn Appelle

Casting Director:

Allison Estrin

Kerry Barden

Paul Schnee

Novelist:

Lisa Genova

Screenplay Writer:

Wash Westmoreland

Richard Glatzer

Production Designer:

Tommaso Ortino

Set Decorator:

Susan Perlman

Supporting Actor:

Alec Baldwin

Stephen Kunken

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Plot

Alice Howland, an educator at Columbia University, enjoys her 50th birthday with her doctor spouse John and their three grown-up kids. Once during her lecture, she forgets some words and is lost in the grounds during her jog time. Alice's specialist determined her to have early beginning familial Alzheimer's sickness. Alice's oldest little girl, Anna, and son, Tom, take a hereditary test to see whether they also will build up the disease. Alice's little girl Lydia, chooses not to be tested.

As Alice's memory starts to blur, she fantasies of her mom and sister, who died in an accident when she was young. She remembers words and sets a progression of individual inquiries on her telephone, which she answers each morning.

John is offered work at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Alice requests that he put off the work, yet he feels that this is not possible. At her specialist's recommendation, Alice conveys a discourse at an Alzheimer's gathering about her involvement with the infection, utilizing a highlighter to help herself which parts to remember the discourse she has officially talked and gets a standing ovation.

Alice starts to experience issues noting the inquiries on her telephone. She loses the telephone and winds up upset; John discovers it a month later in the cooler, yet Alice supposes it has just been absent for a day. Alice and John visit Anna in the clinic to meet their infant twin grandchildren, however, Alice didn't recognize her girl. After a video call with Lydia, Alice accidentally opens the video with the suicide directions.

With some trouble, she finds the pills and is going to swallow them, yet when she is hindered by the entry of her caretaker she drops the pills on the floor and overlooks what she was doing. John, unfit to watch his better half keep on deteriorating, moves to Minnesota. Lydia, who has been living in California, moves back home to administer to Alice.

Lydia peruses her an area of the play Angels in America and asks her what she thinks it is about. Alice, scarcely ready to talk, reacts with a solitary word: "love".

Star Performance

The star cast was stronger and very realistic with their acting.

Analysis

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland are renowned directors who have given splendid movies to the industry. The film also got nominated for various categories and also won the awards.

What's there?

1. Love and support of family could solve all problems and come out with successful results.

What's not there?

1. Every scene was perfectly executed and it is difficult to find faults.

Verdict

Another heart touching story that would be splendid to watch. So people watch it.