Still Alice

In select theaters
January 9^th 2015

January 30^th 2015

Currently Playing! January 16^th 2015

January 30^th 2015

February 13^th 2015

Currently Playing! January 16^th 2015

January 30^th 2015

Currently Playing! January 16^th 2015

pg13

99 minutes

English

Official website

The art of losing isn't hard to master. — Elizabeth Bishop Renowned linguistics professor Dr. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) knows the truth of Bishop's poetic insight as well as anyone. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, Alice learns the art of losing every day. At first, Alzheimer's means losing her way around the streets of Manhattan, but soon — far too soon for her husband and three grown children — it's much more. But even as it puts her marriage to the test, Alice's new condition does provide the opportunity to reconnect with her youngest daughter, Lydia (Kristen Stewart), with whom she's never seen eye-to-eye. The fact that Alice is a lifelong student of language and communication proves a powerful resource in her fight against mental decline, but it also means that she has a uniquely troubling understanding of what's to come.

starring...

Julianne Moore

Dr. Alice Howland

Kristen Stewart

Lydia Howland

Alec Baldwin

Dr. John Howland

Kate Bosworth

Anna

Hunter Parrish

Tom Howland

Directors

Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

Screenplay

Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

Cinematographer

Denis Lenoir

Editor

Nicolas Chaudeurge

Production Designer

Tommaso Ortino

Music

lan Eshkeri

Set Decoration

Susan Perlman

98% on the CINEMETER

BOCA

98% - Dec 7, 2014

Loving, poignant & everything that makes a movie a success! Brilliant film!

Boca Raton Member

Julianne Moore's acting was superb!
Boca Raton Member

A genuine portrayal of the personal development of the disease that effects everyone in their life!
Boca Raton Member

Difficult to watch but impossible to miss seeing it. Julianne Moore deserves Oscar!
Boca Raton Member

Insightful as to how an Alzeimher's patient sees the world--loved the camerawork when it blurred to show the world thru Moore's eyes.
Boca Raton Member

STL

97% - Dec 14, 2014

Oh My! I almost don't have any words. Julianne Moore was amazing. I"m still crying. What an incredible movie about all the traps this horrible disease carries. I'm so touched and moved by the story and Moore's performance in particular. Loved it, loved every single minute. Didn't want it to end. Thank you!!!
St. Louis Member

A profoundly touching film . . .lovely and relentless.
St. Louis Member

Devastating, beautiful, powerful, horrifying.
St. Louis Member

The best film I have seen on a vital topic. Although the periods of intense emotion were brief and sporadic, they were not tedious or labored. The acting was masterful.
St. Louis Member

Wonderful in all ways. Packs a powerful punch. A very real film about a very real disease. Superb direction. Julianne Moore is luminous, brilliant. Very strong support by Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin. By far the very best in the history of the St. Louis Cinema Club
St. Louis Member

MIL

97% - Dec 14, 2014

Julianne Moore is incredible. She deserves every accolade that she's bound to get. The rest of the cast was outstanding and real.
Milwaukee Member

Poignant. Hard at watch at times due to the outstanding portrait of a person with Alzheimer's. Outstanding film.
Milwaukee Member

Very powerful and realistic portrayal of the dignity-robbing disease Alzheimer's. This movie gives voice to the affected individual.
Milwaukee Member

WOW. I feel like I just got run over by a truck.
Milwaukee Member

Wonderful performance by Moore; helps draw you in on a very personal level.
Milwaukee Member

The movie was very realistic and thoughtful. It was very accurate and well-researched.
Milwaukee Member

Very depressing but very important.
Milwaukee Member

99% - Dec 7, 2014

A flawless movie - the best I've seen in a long time. I had a lump in my throat the whole time. Julianne Moore should sweep the awards this year.
San Francisco Member

Agonizing to watch but beautiful at the same time. I loved that the point of view stayed with Alice and her experience - there was enough to show the effects on the family, but it was authentic in staying with her experience. Painful but very moving - the discussion was helpful in absorbing it.
San Francisco Member

This is as good as it gets - filmmaking, acting, connecting to an audience.
San Francisco Member

This was a movie I had decided not to see because it was too depressing a subject. Thank goodness for The Cinema Club, for this is a truly wonderful film. And Julianne Moore has given an Oscar-worthy performance.
San Francisco Member

Gee, thanks. A barrel o'laughs. Seriously, a great and scary film.
San Francisco Member

94% - Dec 7, 2014

Have rarely enjoyed a movie adaptation of a book as much. Harder to watch than to read. Excellent.
Greater New Haven Member

Almost too intense to watch. A sensitive and wonderfully acted film.
Greater New Haven Member

Moore's performance is stellar in showing the devastation wrought by this disease.
Greater New Haven Member

Beautiful, magnificent, heart-rending depiction of a mind being lost.
Greater New Haven Member

Loved the "faded camera" with the faded mind. [Note: some liked this technique; others didn't.]
Greater New Haven Member

96% - Dec 7, 2014

I am physically and emotionally shaken by this film. From minute 20 my stomach was clenched. I keep recalling Greek notions of tragedy, when the audience's sympathy is engaged at the hero's downfall due to one major flaw. The film speaks to one of our deepest fears, and my identification with Alice was complete. The writing, pacing, acting…everything struck me as flawless. I need time to recover.
Washington, DC Member

I thought the film presented a good perspective from inside the person with Alzheimer's in addition to the more usual perspective of the family.
Washington, DC Member

*** If Julianne Moore does not get an Oscar for that movie, I don't know what is going on with the Academy.***
Washington, DC Member

I liked the way Julianne Moore used her eyes - from very bright to dull and listless later on…
Washington, DC Member

About as perfect as it gets. Realistic, sensitive & heartbreaking. The just a blank screen ending was perfect too
Washington, DC Member

BOS

99% - Dec 7, 2014

Best film ever!
Boston Member

Very powerful (several times) and should be seen by every adult (three times).
Boston Member

Very well done (several times), very respectful. Excellent. Award worthy (several times).
Boston Member

Superbly conceived and acted.
Boston Member

Powerful, heartbreaking, but did not cross the line into sentimentality. Outstanding
Boston Member

Incredible film. Julianne Moore's performance is incredible (many many times).
Boston Member

ATL

100% - Dec 14, 2014

Julianne Moore's portray of an Alzheimer's patient is spot on (I've seen it first hand with family). Loved the use of blurred backgrounds to help show her confusion or inability to be present.
Atlanta Member

Great writing, lovely art. Brings Alzheimer to life in a dramatic way. Powerfully non-indulgent, little whining, beautiful portrayal.
Atlanta Member

The storytelling reminded me very much of BOYHOOD in the way it both observed the telling detail of the characters' daily life and played against your expectations of accidents, injury, mortification and other screenplay plotting tropes.
Atlanta Member

A sad time in anyone's life but accomplished with class and dignity without being maudlin or trite.
Atlanta Member

This was a fantastic movie! Probably the best movie we've ever seen at cinema club. Wow!! [Moderator: many cards like this.]
Atlanta Member

There was NOT a single false note, not one, about this eloquent and authentic rendering of loss due to Alzheimer's.
Atlanta Member

Julianne Moore IS a national treasure. Nice to see Kristin Stewart do something with more depth than TWILIGHT.
Atlanta Member

This is a film I would not have chosen to see, as it is a challenge. And I am really glad that the cinema club brought it to me. I'm really glad to have seen this excellent film.
Atlanta Member

A sensitive portrait of selflessness vs. selfishness in the midst of a family crisis. Julianne Moore's portrayal of her character's degeneration was spectacular.
Atlanta Member

Will be considered a landmark film in the "Alzheimer's" genre!
Atlanta Member

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