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Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, Pete Seeger, M. Emmet Walsh
| Between "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Little Big Man," Arthur Penn shot this 1969 dramatization of Arlo Guthrie's famous song/monologue, "The Alice's Restaurant Massacre," which fills the airwaves every Thanksgiving. Guthrie plays himself as he visits his friend Alice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, agrees as a favor to take her trash to the dump, finds the dump closed, and drops the load on a heap of other garbage. The local sheriff discovers this massive case of littering and a manhunt, arrest, and court appearance ensues -- which events came back to haunt Guthrie when he gets called up for the draft. This "slice of hippy life" has its funny and haunting moments -- a visit to his dying father Woody Guthrie (played by Joseph Boley), the burial in a light New England snowfall of a friend who died of a heroin overdose -- but is a bit aimless. Watch for M. Emmet Walsh as the infamous Group W sergeant. Patricia Quinn plays Alice Brock, and the real Alice appears several times briefly as "Suzy." | ||
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Plot Comedy, primarily Yes Time/era of movie: - 1960's-1970's Crime & Scandal Yes Story of - life in drug culture Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Eccentric: Yes - eccentric Hair color? - brunette (Brown) Hair type - - (man) short/standard wavey Body type - (man) very skinny Unclothed? - Chest Ethnicity/Nationality How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor Main Adversary Identity: - an organization How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40% Setting United States Yes The US: - Northeast Style Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death Movie makes you feel... - encouraged Sex/nudity in movie? Yes What kind of sex: - kissing - seeing breasts Any profanity? - Some foul language If lots of song/dance... - |
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