7–18 november 2012

Sometimes your friends seem to be just slightly more successful than you are. Is the solution to stop chasing your own dream and follow your friends instead? Well, some do. Like Alice. This is the story about what she found.
The main character in What Alice Found is a New England working class girl called Alice (Emily Grace in her feature debut) whom just graduated from high school. Her best friend is heading for college in Florida to study marine biology. As for Alice, the choices aren’t many – she is stuck in her small town melancholy with a dull job at the convenient store. So, with no bright future in sight, she decides to join her friend and perform a literal escape from home. To finance it, Alice steals money from the cash register at work and her mom’s car, and then she heads towards Florida. Soon enough, her car breaks down under strange circumstances.
Left in the middle of nowhere, she falls in the hands of a friendly Southern couple (played by Bill Raymond, Dogville, 2003, and Judith Levy, The Devil’s Advocate, 1997). However, their way of earning money is more dubious – their RV is used as an interstate mobile brothel, where love is for sale. Caught in their friendly arms, without money, what will Alice do?
What Alice Found tells a straight escapist story about what happen when people end up in situations in which social, intellectual and economic comfort is missing. In this case the journey to the dream becomes the story.
DANIEL ILIC
| Titel | What Alice Found |
| Regi | A. Dean Bell |
| Land | |
| Prod. år | 2003 |
| Längd | 96 min |
| Festivalår | 2003 |
| Sektion | American Independents |
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