Still Alice Page #2

Synopsis: Dr. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is a renowned linguistics professor at Columbia University. When words begin to escape her and she starts becoming lost on her daily jogs, Alice must come face-to-face with a devastating diagnosis: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. As the once-vibrant woman struggles to hang on to her sense of self for as long as possible, Alice's three grown children must watch helplessly as their mother disappears more and more with each passing day.
Genre: Drama
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 30 wins & 32 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG-13
Year:
2014
101 min
Website
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She taps again - a picture of a toddler in a kid-friendly

lab.

ALICE:

Now, this might sound like it fallsinto the great academic traditionof knowing more and more about lessand less until we know everythingabout nothing.

(audience chuckles)

But I hope to convince you that bytaking these first baby steps intothe...

The smooth, assured flow of Alice’s lecture is broken - aword isn’t forthcoming.

ALICE:

Into the...

The audience waits patiently.

ALICE:

(deadpanning)

I knew I shouldn’t have had that

champagne.

An appreciative murmur. Alice takes a slight detour roundthe word.

ALICE:

...into the word stock of a givenlanguage...

(hits her stride again)

...we will learn crucial

information about the interaction

between memory and computation thatis the very essence ofcommunication.

INT. BLACK CAR -- MOVING -- LOS ANGELES

Alice stares out the window - something is troubling her.

She closes her eyes as if to squeeze out a thought.

PINK PAGES 7

ALICE:

(under her breath)

Lexicon!

Satisfied, she looks at a WORDS WITH FRIENDS game on heriPhone. Moving three letters, she forms the word “HADJ” on atriple.

EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - KOREATOWN - LATE AFTERNOON

The black car arrives at a two-story run-down Seventiesapartment building.

EXT. SECOND FLOOR CORRIDOR

Alice exits the elevator and walks down the corridor of the

low-rent building. She passes a room where she glimpses afew young people hanging out listening to indie rock. A

little further down, she finds Lydia’s door.

The door is answered by LYDIA HOWLAND, a feisty young womanwith dark hair.

LYDIA:

Hey.

ALICE:

Hi.

LYDIA:

Hey, sorry. You just caught me by

surprise. Come on in. It’s messy

but I was in the process of

cleaning.

INT. LYDIA’S APARTMENT

ALICE:

It’s fine, honey. Don’t worry.

Alice looks around. A living room adjoins a kitchen,

separated only by a counter that is cluttered with left-oversfrom lunch. There are some pieces of eighties thrift storefurniture, some carelessly discarded men’s boots.

LYDIA:

(picking up a few things)

The boys are total slobs. The

kitchen is the main battleground,

but I’ve got them in training. So

we’ll see how that goes.

Alice glances at some photobooths on the wall - Lydia and twoyoung men goofing for the camera.

PINK PAGES 8

ALICE:

So where are they?

LYDIA:

At work. Doug’s at Starbucks.

Malcolm does some catering.

ALICE:

I guess that’s what they mean by aworking actor?

Lydia gives a tight-lipped smile. Acting is always a soretopic for them.

INT. L.A. RESTAURANT - NIGHT

The restaurant is typical Silverlake -- hipster Mexican.

Lydia has finished eating. Alice is still working on it.

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Richard Glatzer

Richard Glatzer was born on January 28, 1952 in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for his work on America's Next Top Model (2003), Still Alice (2014) and Pedro (2008). He was married to Wash Westmoreland. He died on March 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA. more…

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