Product Information
The story of a young man who, after illegally dumping some rubbish, gets tangled up with both the local police and the draft board.Product Identifiers
ProducerHillard Elkins, Joseph Manduke
EAN5050070010442
eBay Product ID (ePID)3964494
Product Key Features
ActorTina Chen, M. Emmet Walsh, Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick
Film/TV TitleAlice's Restaurant
DirectorArthur Penn
Release Year2003
GenreDrama, General
Run Time106 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationArthur Penn's film, based on Arlo Guthrie's famous song of the same name, takes an exuberant look at the 1960s counterculture, draft dodging, social intolerance, law enforcement, and the hardships of growing older. Like the 18-minute song itself, ALICE'S RESTAURANT follows Arlo Guthrie (played by Arlo Guthrie) as he gets kicked out of school and travels back east to visit his old friends Alice and Ray Brock. After a huge Thanksgiving feast, Arlo is assigned the duty of disposing of the garbage. When he finds the local dump closed, he tosses the mound of garbage over a cliff, which leads to his arrest for littering. When Arlo is eventually drafted into the army and is filling out the paperwork, he finds a simple question on the back of one of the forms: Kid, have you ever been arrested
ReviewsUSA Today - ...A passionate portrait of dropping out and draft resistance that remains elegiac about the '60s without being overly sentimental...
MusicArlo Guthrie
AuthorArlo Guthrie, Venable Herndon, Arthur Penn
CinematographerMichael Nebbia
EditorDede Allen
Movie/TV TitleAlice's Restaurant