Rating: R
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 01/23/2001
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Flags: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM

Intrigued by the counterculture tale of Arlo Guthrie's epic 1968 talking-blues record The Alice's Restaurant Massacree, director Arthur Penn, co-scripting with playwright Venable Herndon, adapted the song into the 1969 feature Alice's Restaurant. Hippie outsider Arlo (Guthrie, playing himself) encounters suspicion from the straight world; visits his dying father, renowned leftist activist/singer Woody Guthrie (Joseph Boley), in the hospital along with friend Pete Seeger; and hangs out in the title converted church/commune created by his friends Alice (Pat Quinn) and her husband Ray (James Broderick). After Alice's "Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat," Arlo is arrested for littering by rule-following Officer "Obie" Obanhein (William Obanhein, playing himself). That littering arrest helps Arlo avoid the Vietnam draft, but the commune is threatened after more personal, old-fashioned conflicts over sex and partnerships permeate Alice and Ray's alternative world.

~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Arlo Guthrie - Arlo
Pat Quinn - Alice
James Broderick - Ray
Michael McClanathan - Shelly
Geoff Outlaw - Roger
Tina Chen - Mari-Chan
Kathleen Dabney - Karin
Pol. Chief William Obanhein - Officer obie
Seth Allan - Evangelist
Monroe Arnold - Bluegrass
Joseph Boley - Woody
Pete Seeger - Himself
Sylvia Davis - Marjorie
Simm Landres - Jacob
Louis Beachner - Dean
MacIntyre Dixon - lst Deconsecration Minister
Rev. Dr. Pierce Middleton - 2nd Deconsecration Minister
Donald Marye - Funeral Director
Shelley Plimpton - Reenie
M. Emmet Walsh - Group W Sergeant
Lee Hays - Himself
Eleanor D. Wilson - Landlady
Simon Deckard - Medic
Thomas DeWolfe - Waiter
Judge James Hannon - Himself
Graham Jarvis - Music Teacher
John Quill - 2nd Cop
Frank Simpson - Sergeant

Production:
Arthur Penn - Director
Hillard Elkins Joseph Manduke - Producer
Arlo Guthrie Garry Sherman - Composer
Dede Allen - Editor
Venabel Herndon Arthur Penn - Screen Writer
John Mortensen - Set Designer
Harold Leventhal - Associate Producer
Victor J. Kemper - Camera Operator
Michael Nebbia - Cinematographer
Anna Hill Johnstone - Costume Designer
Irving Buchman - Makeup
Fred Hellerman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Warren Clymer - Production Designer

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