Still Alice
Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor happily married with three grown children. All that begins to change when she is diagnosed with Early-onset Alzheimer';s Disease, Alice and her family';s lives face a harrowing challenge as this terminal degenerative neurological ailment slowly progresses to an inevitable conclusion they all dread. Along the way, Alice struggles to not only to fight the inner decay, but to make the most of her remaining time to find the love and peace to make simply living worthwhile.
9 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 July 1977, Gainesville, Florida, USA
3 April 1958, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
4 December 1997
2 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1968, New York, USA
May 11, 2017
Still Alice is a close-to-heartbreaking portrait of mental illness and a genuinely effecting character study.
February 15, 2017
It's the intent of this moving film to capture something that for obvious reasons is rarely attempted in memoir or movie, i.e., the experience of the deadly disease from the perspective of the sufferer rather than the caregivers.
January 29, 2015
The movie is harrowing, as any story about Alzheimer's should be, but Moore gives it an extra layer of gravity and heartbreaking inevitability.
July 14, 2016
Kristen Stewart, fresh off the weird festival entry Clouds of Sils Maria with Juliette Binoche, is just as good here as ultimately the only unselfish member of this disappointing family. But come and stay for Moore, an actor for this and all ages.
January 23, 2015
The great strength of the film is that it never resorts to cheap sentimentality. The facts themselves are hard enough, crushing enough.
January 29, 2015
A modest drama, but Moore's heart-wrenching and Oscar-nominated performance makes this a must-see.
January 23, 2015
Still Alice is accurate and compassionate, and anyone who has known someone with Alzheimer's will appreciate the film's sincere intentions.
January 23, 2015
Sorrow-laden and moving, Still Alice isn't gratuitously grim nor is it easily sentimental. There's humor here -- vaguely gallows-like, perhaps but also earned.
March 08, 2017
Polished but forgettable.
June 13, 2016
70 percent portrait of a disease/30 percent family drama, recommended as preparation/demystification for Alzheimer's-affected families, and for fans of both Moore and Stewart.
January 29, 2015
While it's no surprise that Moore is so good, "Still Alice" has an unexpected trick up its sleeve: the sweetly gentle performance of Kristen Stewart, as Alice's actress daughter Lydia.
September 13, 2016
The performances prevent the film from becoming totally generic.
