'' Alice's Restaurant '' is a 1969 American
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Arthur Penn
Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010)
was an American director and producer of film, television and theater. Closely associated with the American New Wave, Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 19 ...
. It is an adaptation of the 1967
folk song
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"
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
"Alice's Restaurant Massacree", commonly known as "Alice's Restaurant", is a satirical talking blues song by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album '' Alice's Restaurant''. The song is a deadpan prote ...
", originally written and sung by
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. Gut ...
. The film stars Guthrie as himself, with
Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and
James Broderick
James Joseph Broderick III (March 7, 1927November 1, 1982) was an American actor. He is known for his role as Doug Lawrence in the television series ''Family'', which ran from 1976 to 1980, and he played a pivotal role in the 1975 film ''Dog Day ...
as Ray Brock. Penn, who resided in the story's setting of
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,018 at the 2020 census. A year-round resort area, Stockbridge is h ...
, co-wrote the screenplay in 1967 with Venable Herndon after hearing the song, shortly after directing ''
Bonnie & Clyde
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow (March 24, 1909May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The c ...
''.
[Cummings, Paula (November 21, 2017)]
Interview: Arlo Guthrie Carries On Thanksgiving Traditions And Fulfills Family Legacy
''NYS Music''. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
''Alice's Restaurant'' was released on August 19, 1969, a few days after Guthrie appeared at the
Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. ...
. A
soundtrack album
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for the film was also released by
United Artists Records
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History Genres
In 1959, ...
. The soundtrack includes a studio version of the
title song
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, which was originally divided into two parts (one for each album side); a 1998 CD reissue on the
Rykodisc
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History
Claiming to be the first Compact Disc, CD-only independ ...
label presents this version of the song in full, and adds several bonus tracks to the original LP.
Plot
In 1965, bohemian musician Arlo Guthrie has attempted to avoid the
draft
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by attending college in Montana. His long hair and unorthodox approach to study gets him in trouble with local police as well as residents, so he quits school and hitchhikes back East. He first visits his ailing father
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. He has inspired ...
in a
New York City
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hospital, then performs music at various local venues.
Arlo ultimately returns to his friends Ray and
Alice Brock
Alice May Brock (born February 28, 1941) is an American artist, occasional author and former restaurateur. A resident of Massachusetts for her entire adult life, Brock owned and operated three restaurants in the Berkshires—The Back Room, Take-Ou ...
at their home, a
deconsecrated
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church in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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where they welcome friends and like-minded bohemian types to "crash". Among these are Arlo's school friend Roger and artist Shelly, an ex-
heroin
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addict who is in a motorcycle racing club. Alice is starting up a restaurant in nearby Stockbridge. Arlo composes a jingle for the business, which is then advertised on a radio station, bringing in the first wave of customers. Frustrated with Ray's lackadaisical attitude, Alice has an affair with Shelly and leaves for New York to visit Arlo and Roger, who are paying Woody another visit. Ray comes to take her home, saying he has invited "a few" friends for Thanksgiving.
The events of the song begin after Thanksgiving dinner, when Arlo and Roger decide to do Alice and Ray a favor by taking several months' worth of garbage from their house to the town dump. After loading up a red
VW microbus with the garbage, and "shovels, and rakes, and other implements of destruction", they head for the dump. Finding the dump closed for the holiday, they drive around and discover a pile of garbage that someone else had placed at the bottom of a short cliff. They then decide to add their trash to the accumulation.
The next morning, Arlo and Roger receive a phone call from "Officer Obie", who asks them about the garbage. After admitting to littering, they agree to pick up the garbage and to meet him at the police station. Loading up the microbus with their tools, they head to the police station, where they are immediately arrested. Arlo and Roger are driven to the "scene of the crime", where the police are engaged in a hugely elaborate investigation. A few hours later, Alice bails the boys out. At the trial the next day, Officer Obie anxiously waits to show the judge his many photos of the crime, but the judge happens to be blind, using a
seeing eye dog
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, and simply levies a $25 fine, orders the boys to pick up the garbage, and sets them free. They soon take the garbage to New York and place it on a barge. At the church, Arlo pursues a relationship with a beautiful Asian girl, Mari-chan.
Some days later, Arlo is called up for a physical examination related to
Vietnam War draft in a
surreal
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* "Surreal" (song), a 2000 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
* ''Surreal'' (album), an album by Man Raze
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...
depiction of the
bureaucracy
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at the
New York City
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military induction center on
Whitehall Street
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. He attempts to make himself unfit for military induction by acting like a homicidal maniac in front of a psychiatrist, but this gets him praise. Because of Guthrie's criminal record for littering, he is sent to wait with other convicts on the
Group W bench. He is then pronounced unfit for military service when he comments on the dubiousness of considering littering to be a problem when selecting candidates for armed conflict, making the officials suspicious of "his kind" and prompting them to
send his personal records to
Washington, D.C.
)
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Returning to the church, Arlo finds Ray and members of the motorcycle club showing home movies of a recent race. A high Shelly enters, and Ray beats him until he reveals his stash of heroin, concealed in a
mobile
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he has made from spare car parts. Shelly roars off into the night on his motorcycle to his death.
Joni Mitchell
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's "Songs to Aging Children Come" is sung at the funeral. The next day, Woody dies, and Arlo laments not visiting his father one last time. Ray and Alice have a hippie-style wedding and celebration in the church, and a drunken Ray proposes to sell the church and start a country commune instead while blaming himself for Shelly's death. Alice and Ray see off Arlo and Mari-chan in Arlo's microbus. Ray returns inside, while Alice silently stands on the steps and looks off into the distance.
Cast
*
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. Gut ...
as himself
*
Pat Quinn as
Alice Brock
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*
James Broderick
James Joseph Broderick III (March 7, 1927November 1, 1982) was an American actor. He is known for his role as Doug Lawrence in the television series ''Family'', which ran from 1976 to 1980, and he played a pivotal role in the 1975 film ''Dog Day ...
as Ray Brock
*
Pete Seeger
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as himself
*
Lee Hays
Lee Elhardt Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folksinger and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in soci ...
as himself – reverend at evangelical meeting
* Michael McClanathan as Shelly
* Geoff Outlaw as Roger Crowther
*
Tina Chen
Tina Chen (Traditional Chinese: 陳婷, Hanyu Pinyin: Chén Tíng) (born November 2, 1943) is a Chinese-American stage, film, and television actress who starred in the films ''Alice's Restaurant'', '' Three Days of the Condor'', and '' The Hawa ...
as Mari-chan
* Kathleen Dabney as Karin
*
William Obanhein
William J. Obanhein (October 19, 1924 – September 11, 1994), also known as Officer Obie, was the chief of police for the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the police force there for 34 years, 1951 to 1985. He is fairly ...
as himself – Officer Obie
* James Hannon as himself – the blind judge
* Seth Allen as Evangelist
* Monroe Arnold as Bluegrass
* Joseph Boley as
Woody Guthrie
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*
Vinnette Carroll
Vinnette Justine Carroll (March 11, 1922 – November 5, 2002) was an American playwright, actress, and theatre director. She was the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway, with her 1972 production of the musical ''Don't Bother Me, I ...
as Draft Clerk
* Sylvia Davis as
Marjorie Guthrie
)
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* Simm Landres as Private Jacob / Jake
* Eulalie Noble as Ruth
* Louis Beachner as Dean
* MacIntyre Dixon as First Deconsecration Minister
* Arthur Pierce Middleton as Second Deconsecration Minister
* Donald Marye as Funeral Director
*
Shelley Plimpton
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as Reenie
*
M. Emmet Walsh
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as Group W Sergeant
Cameos and special appearances
The real Alice Brock makes a number of
cameo appearance
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s in the film. In the scene where Ray and friends are installing insulation, she is wearing a brown turtleneck top and has her hair pulled into a
ponytail
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. In the Thanksgiving dinner scene, she is wearing a bright pink blouse. In the wedding scene, she is wearing a Western-style dress. She declined an offer to portray herself in the film.
Stockbridge police chief
William Obanhein
William J. Obanhein (October 19, 1924 – September 11, 1994), also known as Officer Obie, was the chief of police for the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the police force there for 34 years, 1951 to 1985. He is fairly ...
("Officer Obie") plays himself in the film, explaining to ''
Newsweek
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'' magazine that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool. Judge James E. Hannon, who presided over the littering trial, also appears as himself in the film.
[Doyle, Patrick (November 26, 2014)]
Arlo Guthrie looks back on 50 years of Alice's Restaurant
. ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved November 29, 2014. Many of Guthrie's real-life associates in Stockbridge made appearances as
extras, and Penn, who himself had a home in Stockbridge,
[ spent time living among them in an effort to grasp their lifestyle.][Arlo Guthrie's Alice is alive, glad to be here]
''The Wall Street Journal'' via the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (November 22, 2006). Retrieved September 8, 2017. Guthrie and all of the extras were housed at the same hotel during filming of scenes outside Stockbridge, but Guthrie received star treatment; a limousine was provided for Guthrie each morning while the others had to find their own transportation for filming. This strained the relations between Guthrie and his friends for many years.[ Much of the film was recorded in Stockbridge.][
The film also features the first credited film appearance of character actor ]M. Emmet Walsh
Michael Emmet Walsh (born March 22, 1935) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 films and television series, including small but important supporting roles in dozens of major studio features of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in ''Bl ...
, playing the Group W sergeant. (Walsh had previously appeared as an uncredited extra in ''Midnight Cowboy
''Midnight Cowboy'' is a 1969 American drama (film and television), drama film, based on the 1965 Midnight Cowboy (novel), novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars ...
'', released three months prior.) The film also features cameo appearances by American folksingers/songwriters Lee Hays
Lee Elhardt Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folksinger and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in soci ...
(playing a reverend at an evangelical meeting) and Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably ...
(playing himself).
Differences from real life
The original song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" that formed the basis for the film's central plotline was, for the most part, a true story. However, other than this and the hippie wedding at the end of the film, most of the other events and characters in the film were fictional creations of the screenplay's writers. According to Guthrie on the DVD's audio commentary, the film used the names of real people but took numerous liberties with actual events. Richard Robbins, Guthrie's co-defendant in real-life, was replaced by the fictional Roger Crowther for the film (in the song, he remained anonymous); he later described almost all the additions to the story as "all fiction" and "complete bull."[ The subplots involving the Shelly character were completely fictional and not based on any real people or incidents in Guthrie's life;][Brown, Jane Roy (February 24, 2008)]
After Alice's restaurants
''The Boston Globe''. Retrieved October 24, 2015. his character's motorcycle club was loosely based on the Trinity Motorcycle Club (or, by a conflicting account, the Triangle Motorcycle Club), a real-life group of motorcyclists that associated with the Brocks and were alluded to in another Guthrie song, the "Motorcycle Song".[Giuliano, Charles (March 27, 2014)]
''Berkshire Fine Arts''. Retrieved October 24, 2015. The film also has Guthrie being forced to leave a Montana town after "creating a disturbance" – i.e., several town residents object to Guthrie's long hair and gang up to throw him through a plate glass window. This never happened, and Guthrie expresses regret that Montana got a "bad rap" in the film. In reality, during the time of the littering incident and trial, Guthrie was still enrolled in a Montana college, and was only in Stockbridge for the long Thanksgiving weekend (he would drop out of college at the end of the semester).[
Alice Brock has spoken very negatively of the film's portrayal of her.] She stated in a 2014 interview "That wasn't me. That was someone else's idea of me."[ Brock took particular offense at the film implying that she had slept with Guthrie (among others) and noted that she had never associated with heroin users.][ She also noted that the film in particular][ had brought a large amount of unwanted publicity: "It just really impinged on your privacy. It's just amazing how brazen people can be when you're a supposed public figure (...) We sold the church at that point."][
]
Reception
The film has a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
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based on 19 reviews, with a weighted average
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of 6.19/10. In 2009, ''Politics Daily
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Melinda Henneberger, a former ''Newsweek'' and ''New York Times'' repo ...
'' wrote that, "calling the 1969 film a comedy misses its ''noir'' backbeat of betrayed romanticism, and thinking of it as a madcap autobiography misses its politics. This is a movie driven by the military draft and the Vietnam War".
Upon its initial release, ''Newsweek
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'' called the film "the best of a number of remarkable new films which seem to question many of the traditional assumptions of establishment America."
When interviewed in 1971, the film's director, Arthur Penn, said of the film: "What I tried to deal with is the US's silence and how we can best respond to that silence. ... I wanted to show that the US is a country paralyzed by fear, that people were afraid of losing all they hold dear to them. It's the new generation that's trying to save everything".
In being offered the opinion that violence is not so important in the film, Penn replied: "''Alice's Restaurant'' is a film of potential transition because the characters know, in some way, what they are looking for. ... It's important to remember that the characters in ''Alice's Restaurant'' are middle-class whites. They aren't poor or hungry or working class. They are not in the same boat as African Americans. But they're not militants either. In this respect the church dwellers are not particularly threatening. They find it easy to live there, even if most people can't afford such a luxury. From this point of view, this film depicts a very specific social class. It's a bourgeois film".
The final scene is not of a loving couple seeing off their guests, but of Alice standing alone looking into the distance, watching the guests leave, as if knowing that her future is in fact bleak with Ray. Coincidentally, the real Alice and Ray finalized their divorce on the same day the wedding scene was filmed.[ Arthur Penn has said that the final scene was intended as comment on the inevitable passing of the ]counterculture
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dream: "In fact, that last image of Alice on the church steps is intended to freeze time, to say that this paradise doesn't exist any more, it can only endure in memory". Gene Siskel
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of the ''Chicago Tribune
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'' listed ''Alice's Restaurant'' as third best film of 1969.
The film grossed $6,300,000 in the United States, making it the 23rd highest-grossing film of 1969.
Awards
* Nominated for Academy Award
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* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
(1969) – Arthur PennAwards Information for ''Alice's Restaurant''.
IMDb
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. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
* Nominated for Writers Guild of America
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* The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO
* The Writers Guil ...
Award
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An awar ...
for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen (1970) – Venable Herndon, Arthur Penn
* Third Place – Laurel Awards
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– Golden Laurel for Comedy (1970)
* Nominated for British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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Awards
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An award ...
– Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music (1971) – Arlo Guthrie
See also
* List of American films of 1969
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''Midnight Cowboy'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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See also
* 1969 in the United States
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