Still Alice (2014)

Directed by

Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, France, United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 3,294 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A linguistics professor starts forgetting words. She learns she has early onset Alzheimer's disease. The film follows her slow decline and how her family copes.

sadintimateslow-pacedrealisticemotionalunsettlingtenderquiet

What happens

Still Alice is a 2014 American tragedy film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova. It stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, and Hunter Parrish play her children. Glatzer and Westmoreland were approached by Lex Lutzus and James Brown to adapt Genova's novel in 2011, when Glatzer had just been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Moore was their first choice for Howland, and researched Alzheimer's disease for months to prepare. The film was shot in New York in March 2014, with a budget of $4 million. Still Alice had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014. It was one of several films stolen in the Sony Pictures hack and leaked online on November 27, 2014. The film was released theatrically on January 16, 2015, and grossed $43.9 million at the international box office. It received positive reviews, with praise for Moore's performance, which won awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress. She dedicated her Academy Award win to Glatzer, who died from ALS in March 2015. The film was included among the year's top ten independent films by the National Board of Review. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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