Reviews - The
Boston Globe
What Alice Found
By Janice Page
8/31/2003
"......There are additional highlights
with roots closer to home, of course. Chief among them: writer-director
A. Dean Bell's "What Alice Found," which won a special
jury prize at last winter's Sundance Film Festival. This modest
drama boasts some of the best performances in the entire BFF program,
as well as a fascinating story that doesn't fully reveal its true
intentions until the very end.
"What Alice Found" begins with New Hampshire
teenager Alice (newcomer Emily Grace) setting out for Florida, where
she hopes to jump-start her college dreams. When her car breaks
down, she accepts a ride from a handy RV-driving couple (Judith
Ivey and Bill Raymond) with unclear motives. Do they just want to
help Alice out of her transportation jam, or are they up to something
far more sinister? Bell keeps viewers off balance the whole way,
helped by a performance from Ivey that rivals Sissy Spacek's multilayered
"In the Bedroom" turn.
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