Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30254 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-11
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Critics greeted Woody Allen's 1990 opus Alice with sighs of resignation. Here was yet another of Allen's bemused heroines-at-a-crossroads/crisis, falling prey to all kinds of temptation and fantasy and emerging at the other end a more complete, fulfilled or at least self-aware human being. But, though it's a minor work by his highest standards, it has weathered rather well. This is a softer exploration of territory Allen had previously covered rather more intensely and seriously in Another Woman (1988). It's often very funny and ultimately affirms one of Allen's most persistent themes: however confused you think you are, the answer probably lies somewhere inside you rather than in anybody else.

As Alice, Mia Farrow gives one of her most versatile and unmannered performances, revealing a real gift for comedy. However bitter the breakdown of her long personal relationship with Allen, there is no doubt that he took her to new professional heights in their cinematic collaborations. At the start, Alice is little more than a well-heeled housewife and mother, a lady who lunches with bitchy friends. Her dissatisfaction with her marriage (to patronising rich guy William Hurt) leads her into the path of Chinese herbalist Dr Yang, whose potions set her off on a series of experiences which include the affair she has been considering, becoming invisible (cue some great gags, especially one involving a New York cab) and a brief flirtation with opium (here Allen's trademark soundtrack of old standards includes the evocative "Limehouse Blues"). There's also some great dialogue. "He's very deep," says Farrow of her putative lover (Joe Mantegna). "Yeah, and very deep is where he wants to put it", cracks back her visiting muse (a glittering cameo from Bernadette Peters).

On the DVD: Presented in widescreen (1.85:1) format with a Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack, Alice on DVD replicates the hallmark intimacy of Allen's films in the cinema with good picture and lush sound quality (the importance of his romantic, referential musical choices should never be underestimated). There are no extras, apart from the original theatrical trailer. --Piers Ford

DVD Description
Manhattan housewife Alice Tate seems to have it all but for Alice, there's still something missing. Alice begins a remarkable journey where she comes face to face with her real needs, her desires, her limits and her gifts.

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
French\German\Spanish
English
English
Region 2
Mono English French German Spanish
Mono
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menu
Chapter Selection
Danish\Dutch\English\French\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish

Customer Reviews

WHAT A PLEASURE!
Obviously, you have to be a fan of Woody Allen to enjoy this, but then you wouldn't buy a DVD of his if you weren't.
With that out of the way, let me assure you that this film, with all the Woody Allen characteristics - the credits at the beginning, the Gerhswin/Cole etc music, the obvious love of Manhattan, is all that you could want.

Alice Tate(Mia Farrow) lives in a wonderfully eccentric apartment with her husband and children who are somewhat neglected by her till the end, and she is so bored that she is prepared to try any remedy for her psychosomatic back troubles, until the most obvious remedy arrives in the form of another man and some obviously very satisying sex.

Finally, after all sorts of bizarre experiences, she finds herself and she makes a resolution to change her life.
BUT along the way, she becomes invisible; she meets with the ghost of a former lover; she reconciles with her sister who was horrified by Alice's lavish, superficial lifestyle, and much, much more.....
It is sheer fun, and pure Woody Allen.
I loved it!!!!