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Movies Watched in 2016 (66 movies items)"2016/02/20 @home on DVD from library with Kendra Depressing insight into alzheimers from the viewpoint of the one suffering from it, and the interacting with her family. Interesting, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from it other than Alzheimers sucks, which I knew before watching. "
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Kristen Stewart Films Viewed by Kathy (4 movies items)" Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Starring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth , Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken, Erin Maya Darke and Victoria Cartagena Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested."
“Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, after an impressive career going over more than 2 decades, Julianne Moore was finally awarded her first Academy Award and, after watching the damned thing, it is pretty obvious that she really deserved it. And yet, even if Moore was really good, I’m not so sure if the movie itself was actually so amazing. I mean, Alzheimer is a terrible disease and the makers gave a solid portrayal but the movie never went really beyond this portrayal, I’m afraid. Indeed, she notices the first symptoms, she gets her diagnosis, she tells her family and the disease starts to take its toll. Sure, all of this was rather well done but if you are familiar with this disease and, like me, you have already se” read more
Julianne Moore Films Viewed by Kathy (30 movies items)" Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Starring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth , Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken, Erin Maya Darke and Victoria Cartagena Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested."
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BradWesley123's Movie Journal- May 2015 (40 movies items)" DVD- 1hr. 41min. First Viewing Still Alice is just an incredibly depressing movie. It's a good movie, no doubt; Julianne Moore is superb, giving a role that could've easily been pure Oscar-bait an immense amount of nuance and humanity. It also wisely doesn't add any maudlin melodrama to the story, and simply presents it for what it is. It does hit a few too many familiar notes, especially as the disease really starts to take over. But, as I said, it's a depressing movie. Not one that I'll be wa"
Movies Watched in 2016 (177 movies items)"1st viewing, PC/TV 20 March 2016 Directed by: Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer Olihan tämä ihan koskettava, mutta elokuvana tarina jää hieman latteaksi. En nyt tiedä kannattiko tästäkin kirjasta tehdä elokuva. "
Watched in 2016
Kathy's Favorite Recently Viewed Films (50 movies items)" Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Starring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth , Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken, Erin Maya Darke and Victoria Cartagena Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested."
Movies Watched in 2015
From The Superb To The Crap - Movies Seen In 2016 (284 movies items)"An Oscar winning performance by Julianne Moore as a 50 year old woman diagnosed with early onset of a rare form of Alzheimers disease. The viewer is shown from the stages early forgetfulness, to the diagnosis and then the family reaction, and finally coping with the worsening disease. There are some unexpectedly moving scenes because they are done without excess sentimentality: when Alice finds out her elder daughter has inherited the gene for the disease, when Alice gives a speech on the diseas"