Alice's Restaurant (1969)

Directed by

Arthur Penn

Genre

drama film, comedy film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 80 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man gets into a series of small adventures after being asked to clean out a church. The story is based on a folk song and follows real-life events in a small Massachusetts town.

comedicfolkearthywhimsicaldown-to-earthnostalgicplayful

What happens

Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 American biographical comedy film directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie. The film stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and James Broderick as Ray Brock. Arthur Penn, who resided in the story's setting of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, co-wrote the screenplay in 1967 with Venable Herndon after hearing the song and more of the story from Brock's father, who was on the board of directors at The Berkshire Playhouse, and shortly after directing Bonnie & Clyde. Alice's Restaurant premiered in Boston a few days after Guthrie appeared at the Woodstock Festival. A soundtrack album for the film was also released by United Artists Records. The soundtrack includes a studio version of the title song, which was originally divided into two parts (one for each album side); a 1998 CD reissue on the Rykodisc label presents this version of the song in full, and adds several bonus tracks to the original LP. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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