
Young Alice has hit the road in her beat-up Ford Escort, escaping from her dead end life in small town New England. She's off to Florida, following her friend Julie who's gone to college in Miami. But Alice gets into trouble on the road, and she's saved by Sandra and Bill, an older couple in an RV. They take Alice under their wing, but are they really good samaritans, or did they have something else in mind? And is Alice telling the truth to them about herself?... (Full plot summary below)
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Young Alice has hit the road in her beat-up Ford Escort, escaping from her dead end life in small town New England. She's off to Florida, following her friend Julie who's gone to college in Miami. But Alice gets into trouble on the road, and she's saved by Sandra and Bill, an older couple in an RV. They take Alice under their wing, but are they really good samaritans, or did they have something else in mind? And is Alice telling the truth to them about herself?
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| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe screenplay by director Bell is packed with surprises, and the acting is excellent. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyBy turns disarmingly amusing and dramatically blunt. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasScrupulously fair-minded yet deliciously ambiguous, What Alice Found, a triumph of sound psychological and artistic judgment, is an unexpected treat for sophisticated audiences. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussA modest but pungent slice of interstate life. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt has nothing going for it but a terrific story and an amazing performance by Judith Ivey, who plays an enigmatic Good Samaritan. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsDigital video is both the blessing and the curse of writer-director A. Dean Bell's well-conceived but underachieved What Alice Found. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenWhat Alice Found, a small, finely wrought drama about a naïve young woman who gets lost on the American highway, gives that wonderfully salty New York stage actress Judith Ivey one of the chewiest roles of her career. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonIvey hits the turf pitching and catching dialogue like a pro, but nothing could have saved What Alice Found from a fundamental cinematic illiteracy. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIn the end, the camper-lot prostitution serves as trapping for a weirdly touching coming-of-age film that leaves its heroine sadder but wiser. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis amateur film looks more like a TV show than a movie. |