Alice's Restaurant

1969 · 111 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 4,792 VOTES · DIR. Arthur Penn

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Overview

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.

Dialogue Timeline — 983 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:14 Then it got to be one kid. Two kids, you're never...
00:03:19 - Not your father, not your grandmother. - I could get it.
00:07:20 - Got a search warrant? - Shut up. We'll ask the questions.
00:11:43 Like the old writer of old, a sin to me in my hell.
00:16:35 and this place, hitherto a holy place
00:20:46 Hi, Reenie.
00:24:49 We want those rooms real warm.
00:29:32 Movements...
00:35:05 I could do that.
00:41:04 Ladies and gentlemen, I thought you'd like to know we're awarding all trophies today
00:46:37 It's not that kind of Korea, it's...
00:50:54 to bring tears of ecstasy to this gourmet's eyes.
00:56:46 Well, you'll make it up for Thanksgiving, won't ya?
01:01:39 # How sweet the sound
01:05:49 Maybe he'll give us a medal for being so brave and honest.
01:09:05 and he took the toilet paper so we couldn't bend the bars
01:13:16 With all this garbage? Why can't we take it to the town dump?
01:19:02 And I started jumpin' up and down yellin' "Kill! Kill!"
01:22:31 cos you wanna know if I'm moral enough to join the army
01:26:58 - Where'd you get it?! - I'm off, remember?
01:32:38 and Shelly was buried before I ever made it back up there.
01:39:00 (# rock guitar)
01:45:03 Yeah! Get it up there! Yeah!
01:50:39 ENHOH

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed983
Dialogue density8.9 lines / min
First line00:00:14
Final line01:50:39

Production Record

DirectorArthur Penn
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes4,792