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Alice's Restaurant

Every Generation Has A Story To Tell.

1969 · 1h 51m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Arthur Penn

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Overview

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.

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All reviews
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Good work in a minor key.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

Penn's genius overtakes the dropout romance, like a final post-bacchanal hangover that suggests liberation as an El Dorado dream.

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Fresh

[Penn] has transformed a charming shaggy-dog story into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era.

TIME Magazine
Rotten

There are occasional flashes of wry humor and some rib-tickling sequences. But they are all too few.

Variety

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