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Still Alice [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

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Overview

Renowned linguistics professor Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) fights to stay connected to her family, friends, and herself after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Moore won an Oscar for Best Actress for her work in this movie. Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin, and Hunter Parrish co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/12/2015
UPC:	0043396455177
Original Release:	2014
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	34,691

Special Features

Blu-Ray Exclusives: ; 3 deleted scenes; Directing Alice: director's journey making the film; Interview with composer Ian Eshkeri; Finding Alice: the cast, filmmakers and Alzheimer's experts discuss what went into creating an acccurate depiction of Alice Howland's disease.

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Julianne Moore	Dr. Alice Howland
Alec Baldwin	Dr. John Howland
Kristen Stewart	Lydia Howland
Kate Bosworth	Anna Howland-Jones
Hunter Parrish	Tom Howland
Shane McRae	Charlie Howland-Jones
Seth Gilliam	Frederic Johnson
Stephen Kunken	Dr. Benjamin
Erin Darke	Jenny
Daniel Gerroll	Eric Wellman
Quincy Tyler Bernstine	Nursing Home Administrator
Maxine Prescott	Nursing Home Resident
Orlagh Cassidy	Primary Care Doctor
Rosa Arredondo	Convention Facilitator
Zillah Glory	Masha (Three Sisters)
Caridad Martinez	Elena
Caleb Freundlich	Young Musician
Charlotte Robson	Young Musician
Jean Burns	Olga
Takako Haywood	Alzhiemers Conference Attendee
Joanne Perica	Crying woman
Nancy Ellen Shore	Nurse
Ilan Eshkeri	Composer

Technical Credits

Javier Bennassar	Sound Effects
Richard Glatzer	Director,Screenwriter
Wash Westmoreland	Director,Screenwriter
Lex Lutzus	Producer
Pamela Koffler	Producer
Marie Savare de Laitre	Executive Producer,Producer
Emilie Georges	Executive Producer,Producer
Celine Rattray	Executive Producer,Producer
Nicholas Shumaker	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer
Trudie Styler	Executive Producer,Producer
Maria Shriver	Executive Producer,Producer
Christine Vachon	Executive Producer,Producer
Ruy Garcia	Sound/Sound Designer
Kerry Barden	Casting
Allison Estrin	Casting
Paul Schnee	Casting
James Baker	Sound Mixer
Jean-Baptiste Babin	Executive Producer,Producer
David Atlan Jackson	Executive Producer,Producer
Joel Thibout	Executive Producer,Producer
Lisa Genova	Screenwriter
Declan Baldwin	Producer
James Brown	Producer

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Editorial Reviews

There's a rich tradition of movies in which a character slowly succumbs to a terminal illness, partly because they give actors a chance to show off, and partly because they let audiences experience the catharsis that tragic stories offer. Still Alice certainly has a superb lead performance in Julianne Moore, but directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland focus more on the situation than the story. Moore plays Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor at Columbia who's happily married to a fellow professor named John (Alec Baldwin). They have three grown children, and everyone seems happy, healthy, and successful. However, when Alice starts forgetting words and getting lost while jogging around campus, she worries that something is wrong. Her worst fears are confirmed when a doctor diagnoses her with early-onset Alzheimer's. As Alice and her family adjust to her mental deterioration, youngest daughter Lydia (Kristen Stewart), an aspiring actress who lives on the West Coast, grows closer to her mom -- which comes as a surprise to everyone, given their history of fighting with each other. This kind of medical and family melodrama wouldn't have felt out of place in 1930s cinema, or on Lifetime today. On the page, it's an old-fashioned, three-hankie tearjerker, but Glatzer and Westmoreland - who both co-directed and co-wrote the script from a novel by Lisa Genova -- mostly avoid big emotions. People weep quietly in this film rather bawl with maximized anguish. Julianne Moore is flawless as Alice. Her eyes betray the terror she feels when simple words elude her, even as she tries to make others feel at ease. She handles the most melodramatic scene, in which she has to tell her kids that her condition is hereditary and they should get tested for it, with admirable restraint. The supporting cast are terrific as well, especially Baldwin as the model of a dutifully patient and loving husband. He has a heartbreaking final scene with Kristen Stewart in which he finally reveals the toll his wife's condition has taken on him, and it's the most affecting moment in the movie because it's such a straightforward depiction of profound human weakness. Not every viewer will be able to put him or herself in Alice's place, but there isn't a person alive who won't empathize with someone who feels that he has failed the greatest test of his life. Still Alice would have been a far more engaging experience if the filmmakers had managed to find more moments like this. Unfortunately, the tempo of the movie gets bogged down in an endless cycle in which Alice has moments of clarity and then regresses, with her loved ones forever adjusting to continually worse levels of "normal." That's the reality for anyone living with such a serious illness, but it doesn't automatically make for compelling drama. As good as Moore and Baldwin are, it's a chore to watch this movie.

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