Alice's Restaurant DVD (2003) Arlo Guthrie, Penn (DIR) cert 15
Title:
Alice's Restaurant
Leading Actor:
Arlo Guthrie
Duration:
106 mins
Format:
DVD / Normal
Type:
DVD
Studio / Publisher:
Warner Bros. Home Ent.
UK Release Date:
15 Sep 2003
Edition:
Normal

Arthur Penn's freewheeling hippy film, based on Arlo Guthrie's famous 1968 song of the same name, takes an exuberant look at the 1960s counterculture, draft dodging, social intolerance, law enforcement, and the hardships of growing older. The film follows Arlo Guthrie (played by himself) as he gets kicked out of school and travels back east to visit his old friends Alice (Pat Quinn) and Ray (James Broderick) Brock in their converted church/commune. After a huge Thanksgiving feast, Arlo is assigned the duty of taking out the rubbish. When he finds the local dump closed, he tosses the bag of rubbish over a cliff - which leads to his arrest for littering. This minor offence comes back to haunt him when he is drafted into the US army during the Vietnam war. Please note this DVD is region 2 and will only work in the following regions Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East (including Egypt) and Greenland, Unless you have a multi-regional DVD Player.