
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.... (Full plot summary below)
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Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.
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| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe PollackWoody Allen's marvelous new comedy, Alice, confirms Mr. Allen's safe arrival on a whole new plateau of film-making. |
| The Seattle TimesJohn HartlIt's a strange, magical film, in which Allen uses the arts of the ancient Chinese healer as a shortcut to psychoanalysis; at the end of the film, which covers only a few days, Alice has learned truths about her husband, her parents, her marriage, her family and herself, and has undergone a profound conversion in values. Because this is a Woody Allen film, a lot of that metaphysical process is very funny. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversAlice may be a minor work in the Allen canon, but when its grace notes manage to be heard above the whimsy, they ring true. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWatchable and sometimes funny, but ever so thin. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrAllen may consider Alice to be a minor jest before his next Big One, but there are pleasures in its small-time ambitions that sometime elude him on his more ambitious projects. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyAlice, which seems like child's play after last year's sober Crimes and Misdemeanors, finds Allen at his most optimistic and sentimental since Radio Days. His pen is not as sharp nor his wit as keen as it has been, but he has become accessible to a broader audience in this whimsical entertainment. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA scattering of fine one-liners , but one can't help wishing that Allen would investigate pastures new. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe role fits Farrow like a silk slip, but its kooky premise doesn’t quite shake up the by-now familiar narrative concerns. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonAt its best the movie displays a vital playfulness. But at its worst -- and there's far too much of that -- Alice continues Allen's endless, banal quest for the Big Answers. All, of course, at the mild-mannered elbow of Farrow. |