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Release Year
2001
Cinematic Movement
Avant-garde
UPC
0027616857644
Format
DVD
Actor
Arlo Guthrie
Rating
R
Director
Arthur Penn
Genre
Comedy
Movie/TV Title
Alice's Restaurant
Edition
Avantgarde Cinema

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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.

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0027616857644
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Product Key Features

Actor
Arlo Guthrie
Rating
R
Edition
Avantgarde Cinema
Movie/TV Title
Alice's Restaurant
Director
Arthur Penn
Format
DVD
Release Year
2001
Genre
Comedy

Additional Product Features

Region Code
Region 1
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Display Format
Avantgarde Cinema
LeafCats
617
Leading Role
Arlo Guthrie
Release Date
20010123
Film Country
USA

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  • Alice's Restaurant is based on a true story

    One of the great features of many recent DVD's is the optional running commentary (However, I never use this on the first viewing). In the voice-over accompanying "Alice's Restaurant", Arlo Guthrie explains that the episodes described in his song, and then dramatized in the movie, actually happened to him: Long time friends Ray and Alice Brock (James Broderick and Pat Quinn), who live in a deconsecrated church near Stockbridge, Massachussetts, throw a Thanksgiving feast. Following dinner Arlo and an accomplice take 1/2 ton of garbage to the city dump only to find it closed for the holiday. So they then find another spot where others have dumped garbage off a cliff, and dump theirs. But they are seen and reported, and next day arrested by Officer Obie (William Obanhein). In a ...

  • Alice's Restaurant (DVD, 2001, Avant-Garde Cinema)

    Where I live every Thanksgiving radio shows play this song 1 time. It is the only time you could hear it. I enjoyed the long song, (over 18 minutes), so much I bought the cd but I wanted to do more than imagine the picture I wanted to see the movie. The movie is just like the song and funnier to watch esp when Arlo throws so much garbage in a no dumping zone with his buddy and the police officer took a zillion photos of the garbage to bring to court to a blind judge. It shows the hippie days, the way they acted and dressed, how they expressed their freedom. The movie doesn't have the photo quality of today's action movies but like an older show which goes along with the story line. If you like the song, Alice's Restraunt, then you would enjoy watching the movie that is 1 hour and 51 ...

  • Classic 1960's Hippie Culture ala Arlo Guthrie

    I'd seen this movie in 1969 or 70 when it first came out. Oddly I didn't remember one thing about it once I saw this 2002 DVD version. Now I remember what it was all about. Vietnam. The Hippie peace movement. A super-power (rather than great power) US that inspired its teenage and young adult generation to create a nonviolent counter-culture because they literally hated war and the lifestyles of the violent US "leaders." Right after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and during the failures of the Vietnam War, a generation of long haired-Hippies with "flower-power" and acoustic guitars with home spun songs about loving each other evolved in reaction to US war mongering anti-Asian supremacism. Though this film is about a small group of Hippies who buy a ...

  • Alice's Restaurant Massacre

    You need to buy this to understand the 60's. Hippies, the Draft, being examined by doctors at an induction station. It is a satire, but very close to the truth..I think the word is "poignant". This movie was made because of the influence of a song by a hippie in the 60's, Arlo Guthrie, who was a traveling folk finger, like his father Woodie Guthrie, a folk singer during the Depression years. Arlo's song..."Alice's Restaurant Massacre" was 18 minutes long, and the movie was made exactly from the song (plus a bit of fill). Sex, drugs, and rock and roll are usually how the 60's are remembered.This has some of that, but in a correct perspective. A must buy for those who think.

  • Excellent Movie

    This is a great movie, not a story but the real thing with the real people playing themselves. You must be able to appreciate the sixties and seventies. I lived through the era and own the original LP album. My children grew up loving the album and really liked this movie. It features Arlo and Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Officer Obie. If you don't like their music you will not appreciate this wonderful movie.