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  • Actors: Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays
  • Directors: Arthur Penn
  • Writers: Arlo Guthrie, Arthur Penn, Venable Herndon
  • Producers: Harold Leventhal, Hillard Elkins, Joseph Manduke
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Sep 2003
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AQVLH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,400 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Arthur Penn's chronicle of hippie life during the late 1960s garnered the acclaimed director his second Oscar nomination.

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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

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful 60's memory., 15 Mar 2004
Arlo Guthrie is not honestly an actor, nor is he as talented a musician as his father Woody Guthrie, but he, and the rest of the cast put together a 'folksy' low-budget movie with lots to see and in which the Hippie lifestyle is well portrayed. It was the world that people like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger (who plays a cameo role) came from. They were icons of the 60's protest movment that launched the powerful opposition to the Vietnam War.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You Can Get Anything You Want At Alice's Restaurant...including entertainment., 10 April 2009
By Mr. S. I. Johnson (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I first watched this movie in my mid teens, around about 1982/83, when I was a young "hippy"! I'd gotten into Arlo Guthrie through watching the Woodstock movie and then buying the soundtrack LP, followed by Arlo's LP "Alice's Restaurant". This was a movie that always stayed with me and, in a way, kind of influenced the the way of life I wanted to live; a young guy, with likewise friends, in a VW campervan, travelling about and just dropping in at his friends places and staying there for a period of time.
The film was made in 1969, based around Arlo's ballad, "Alice's Restaurant". It is has one main comical theme running through it, which is the litter bugging incident on Thanks Giving and how it affected Arlo's call up with the draft to join the army to fight in Vietnam. This movie is basically that, but on watching it now, it goes alot deeper than that. There's Arlo's dad's (Woody) suffering with Huntington's Disease, which he explains runs in the family, there's the horror of the Vietnam war with his friends loss of a limb, which affects his other friends and brings a stark realisation about the war, the draft, the way the soldiers were viewed upon and the afrect it had on both those serving in the war and those who didn't want to. The film also brings in the sadness of drug addiction and the affects that has on those around you aswell as the user. Don't get me wrong though, it's not a depressing film and has alot of lighter sides to it and some good music to boot (Pete Seeger makes an appearance). It just gives a great view of life at those times from both sides, plus how people reacted towards long haired folk, the war, drugs, etc., but, at the end of the day, it was filmed and set in the late 1960's so it may seem dated and of no point to some, but if you are after a movie to relive and understand that period, then this is the movie to watch. I enjoyed watching it again after all those years. It still made me smile and laugh in parts. At he end of the movie it kinds of paints a picture that the "hippy dream" was just that, a dream.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An essential past vision of the future, 10 Nov 2008
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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1969 was a turning point in American history. And this film is still living on the hippy dream, on the flower kids and their illusion that life is nothing but music and fun. Even the war and the draft are made small and insignificant, as if you could escape the draft because you had been arrested, tried and convicted of a crime like littering. Why not jaywalking? 1969 was the arrival of Nixon, the invasion of Cambodia, after the Tet offensive, escalation and blindness among all political personnel or politicians. The film thus is a full nightmare in disguise as a freewheeling period of complete enjoyment and happiness, wedding and champagne added as a reward for your trust in the future. And yet the film is a tremendous satire of that very short-sighted and careless spirit. Every detail is symbolical and metaphorical. Arlo Guthrie's girl friend looks very Vietnamese, a symbol of the war going on that no one wants to see. The church that is sold is also the symbol of the loss of faith and legitimacy in the US. Everything is just running down and away. And that is crowned at the end by this very last scene where Alice and Ray are literally abandoned by Arlo and Mari-chan, and Alice is not standing in any Wonderland then, but in her wedding dress, early in the sunless morning on the front steps of the church of hers, unmoving and silent in a world where there is a light breeze that makes her veil float slightly, both the veil and its shadow on the church wall, and Alice and the church are captured by the slowly moving camera following some circle whose center is Alice herself and every so often a tree trunk goes by in the picture, and the whole church is surrounded by a complete waste land, all dirt and no grass, brown and muddy. The church itself looks unkempt and its paint seems to be more or less starting to scale. A world abandoned and being wasted, wrecked, dumped along the way of history that is going to come, a vision we can imagine bleak and sad, tearful and fearful, frightening and full of pain. There is like some nostalgia at that time about a good old world that has vanished in thin air and will never be back. See you, bye bye, forever. That was a time when the United States, for the first time in their history, had met an obstacle they could not negotiate. And today this past vision is becoming so premonitory of the forty years it will take for hope to come back in time to be able to assume the changing world in which the US are no longer to be number one and yet when they can recapture some leadership provided they accept to share responsibilities and resources. That idea of sharing definitely was not in the air in 1969 and the dissatisfied young people could only dream of a freewheeling enjoyment of what was at their disposal without any effort of any kind. And the vice-principal of my high school was telling us in the car that took us to the Teachers' Union state convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, how a simple atom bomb on Hanoi or ,Haiphong would bring in victory. The higher the monkey climbs in the tree... You know the second part of the saying I guess, if not go and check in Sri Lanka, for instance, what you can see when the monkey is going up into the tree leaving you on the ground, your eyes rising slowly to follow the butt sight of the acrobatic animal.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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