Still Alice (2014) on Netflix
Alice Howland teaches linguistics at Columbia University. A word will not come during a lecture, and a jog leaves her lost on campus. A doctor diagnoses early onset familial Alzheimer's disease.
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- Rotten Tomatoes85%
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Plot summary
Alice Howland teaches linguistics at Columbia University and is renowned in her field. She is married to John, a physician, and they have three adult children. She celebrates her fiftieth birthday with them. Then a word will not come during a lecture, and a jog on campus leaves her unsure of where she is. Her doctor runs tests and tells her she has early onset familial Alzheimer's disease.
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Cast
- Maxine Prescottas Nursing Home Resident
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- Charlotte Robsonas Young Musician
- Jean Burnsas Olga (Three Sisters) (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Still Alice (2014)
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- Julianne Moore's performance won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Critics' Choice awards, her first Oscar after four previous nominations, and she dedicated the win to Glatzer, who died from ALS several weeks later on March 10, 2015.
- Lex Lutzus and James Brown approached Glatzer and Westmoreland to adapt Genova's novel in 2011, at the moment Glatzer had just been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
- The film was part of the confidential data stolen in the Sony Pictures hack, leaked to file sharing sites on November 27, 2014, over a month before its release, along with Fury, Annie, Mr. Turner and To Write Love on Her Arms; within three days it had been downloaded by an estimated 103,832 unique IP addresses.
- Moore prepared for four months, watching documentaries, meeting Judy Fund head Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns and Mount Sinai research director Dr. Mary Sano, and talking over Skype to three women with early-onset Alzheimer's before visiting a support group and a long-term care facility.
- Kate Bosworth was cast after telling Glatzer and Westmoreland "how important and personal the subject matter was" to her; she had family members with Alzheimer's and had set out to become involved in the adaptation after reading Genova's book.
