A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
Matthew H. Williamson
- Dennis
- (as Matt Williamson)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaSean Young filmed a small role, but it was later cut. She had been deleted from Woody Allen's previous film Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) as well.
- GoofsWhen Thelonious Monk's version of "Darn That Dream" appears on the soundtrack, the LP sleeve of "Monk's Dream" is shown, implying that Alice and Joe are listening to it. However, the tune is not featured on that album.
However, implications are not necessarily fact; it might be that Alice and Joe had been listening to several Monk albums and had not been meticulous in returning the discs to the appropriate sleeves.
- SoundtracksLimehouse Blues
Written by Philip Braham & Douglas Furber
Performed by Jackie Gleason
Courtesy of Capitol Records, Inc.
By arrangement with CEMA Special Markets
Featured review
I think Woody Allen's 'Alice' is one of his most under-rated creations. This movie comes from his glory days before the scandal with his adopted daughter eclipsed his U.S. career.
Here is vintage Woody. A fecund imagination married to a masterful story-telling talent.
Like 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' (his masterpiece in my estimation) this is pure fantasy and it is delightful. Mia Farrow has done nothing finer, equal to her portrayal in Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' though of a completely different genre.
The little socio-political messages do not interfere with what is otherwise a nifty little love story between Alice and Joe Mantagna. Things don't quite work out in the end, as is usual in a Woody movie, but they are on the border of real-life possibility and add the bittersweet note that he is so good at.
I love this movie. It is not one of his rocking comedies like 'Broadway Danny Rose' but is a sweet vignette. It has overtones of 'Diary of Mad Housewife' but with a happier ending, for the housewife anyway.
The scenes with Keye Luke, Alice's magical Eastern physician are subtle and funny. The fantasy scenes with Alec Baldwin's dead lover and the wonderful Bernadette Peters' muse are enchanting. Peters' Bronx-like muse is especially funny.
Don't miss it.
Here is vintage Woody. A fecund imagination married to a masterful story-telling talent.
Like 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' (his masterpiece in my estimation) this is pure fantasy and it is delightful. Mia Farrow has done nothing finer, equal to her portrayal in Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' though of a completely different genre.
The little socio-political messages do not interfere with what is otherwise a nifty little love story between Alice and Joe Mantagna. Things don't quite work out in the end, as is usual in a Woody movie, but they are on the border of real-life possibility and add the bittersweet note that he is so good at.
I love this movie. It is not one of his rocking comedies like 'Broadway Danny Rose' but is a sweet vignette. It has overtones of 'Diary of Mad Housewife' but with a happier ending, for the housewife anyway.
The scenes with Keye Luke, Alice's magical Eastern physician are subtle and funny. The fantasy scenes with Alec Baldwin's dead lover and the wonderful Bernadette Peters' muse are enchanting. Peters' Bronx-like muse is especially funny.
Don't miss it.
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- Also known as
- 艾莉絲
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Box office
- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,331,647
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,274
- Dec 25, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $7,331,647
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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