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

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

Leading Role: Arlo Guthrie
Director: Arthur Penn
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Jan 2001
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Avant-Garde Cinema
UPC: 027616857644
Product ID: EPID3326350
Description: 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 son...
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Movie Description
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.

Credits
Writer:Arthur Penn, Venable Herndon
Producer:Hillard Elkins, Joseph Manduke
Cast:James Broderick

Details
Edition:Avant-Garde Cinema
Sound:Stereo Sound

Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Single Side - Single Layer
Audio:
   Dolby Digital - English
Additional Release Material:
   Audio Commentary - 1. Arlo Guthrie - Star
   Theatrical Trailer, Theatrical release: August 20, 1969.

"Alice's Restaurant" was a seminal song in the 1960s, a social satire that humorously expressed youthful discontent with establishment values and the absurdity of its inflexible rules. In particular, the song protests U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, a critique that the film includes and extends.

Arlo Guthrie is the son of folksinger Woody Guthrie, whose own work explored the numerous personal tragedies that occurred during the Great Depression and who was equally critical of the business and government establishment.

The closing shot of the film was the longest track-and-zoom shot in film history at the time.

The real Alice that the song and movie are based on appears in the film as an extra in two scenes.

Editorial Reviews
"...A passionate portrait of dropping out and draft resistance that remains elegiac about the '60s without being overly sentimental..."
USA Today - p.6E - Mike Clark

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      Alice's Restaurant w/Arlo Guthrie 1969 (2002 DVD)
    Review created: 06/17/06(updated 11/10/06)
    55 of 56 people found this review helpful.

    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 church to live in, and then a restaurant for Alice, the wife of the gatherer of the flock, to sell her delicious food from, the back ground is about a social culture change due to an excess of US governmental violence. Sound familiar? Like history repeating itself in 2002-2006?

    Arlo Guthrie is the main troubadour who brings the "family" together through his music, like his real and not real father, who in the picture is dying, had done. Appearances by social changers by way of music, Pete Seeger, join with Guthrie to make lasting political statements through their music about anti-war, group protest, and social change.

    History seems to be repeating itself from 1969 to 2006. Because the older people won't love their neighbors and fear them instead, because the older people won't negotiate with their neighbors and must dominate them instead, because the older people won't resist fighting and love war instead. A new generation is posed to take their stand, just like in the late 60's when violence in the US got way out of hand and didn't represent the true will of the American public. That's what this movie is about. It speaks to us now just like it did back when.


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