Alice's Restaurant [VHS]

ISBN 10: 6301963989 ISBN 13: 9786301963985

Publisher: Fox Home Entertainme, 1969

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Review:

You can get anything you want there, or so went Arlo Guthrie's song, a lengthy monologue about a Thanksgiving dinner and how its aftermath kept Guthrie out of the Vietnam-era draft. Arthur Penn's movie version, which stars Guthrie, James Broderick, and Pat Quinn, has a shambling, good-natured feel, much like Guthrie's epic tall tale. But as it follows Guthrie's adventures (he gets arrested for improper disposal of Thanksgiving garbage and the arrest renders him unfit for military service, in the draft board's eyes), it also examines the freewheeling nature of relationships in that period--and the toll that freedom took on those relationships. Guthrie is a natural performer, particularly funny during the draft board sequence; but the heart of the film is Quinn and Broderick's troubled marriage. --Marshall Fine

About this edition

• Publisher: Fox Home Entertainme
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 6301963989
• ISBN 13: 9786301963985
• Binding: VHS Tape