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Still Alice is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova.It stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease shortly after her 50th birthday.
The book presents the story through Alice's point of view, and the thoughts of other characters are not stated. Alexis Gordon of the University of Toronto Medical Journal wrote that Still Alice uses a "plain, unornamented, and sometimes even clinical style, which belies the strong emotions the book brings forth."
Her first novel was Still Alice (2007), about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The central character, Alice Howland, is a 50-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert. She is married to an equally successful husband, with whom she has three grown children.
When “The Room Next Door” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, the rapturous audience gave director Pedro Almodóvar and his two stars, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, a ...
Their last film, Still Alice, [7] with Julianne Moore, [8] Alec Baldwin, [9] and Kristen Stewart, [10] premiered at Toronto 2014 and was considered the surprise hit of the festival. [11] The movie was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, who released the film in December 2014. [ 12 ]
Still Alice: 2nd Place [51] Denver Film Critics Society Awards 2009 Best Supporting Actress A Single Man: Nominated [52] Detroit Film Critics Society; 2014 Best Actress Still Alice: Nominated [53] Dorian Awards; 2013 Best Actress – Television Movie Game Change: Nominated [54] 2015 Best Actress Still Alice: Won [55] Dublin Film Critics' Circle ...
Moore at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Julianne Moore is an American actress who made her acting debut on television in 1984 in the mystery series The Edge of Night. [1] The following year she made her first appearance in the soap opera As the World Turns, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series in 1988.
Lucchetta wrote that the story has some clichés and that it lacked the "vital and immediate" feeling in Still Alice. [1] Heller McAlpin wrote that the story is "engaging, sympathetic - if not particularly subtle". [3] USA Today's Craig Wilson argued that "This is a well-told tale from a keen medical mind." [6]