
Still Alice
PG-13, 2014, Sony Pictures Classics
Director:
Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Starring:
Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Shane McRae, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish
Plot:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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Children told mom has debilitating genetic disease
Themes: Bad News, Inheritance, Sickness, Storms of Life
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Alzheimer's patient makes plan for future suicide
Themes: Despair, Facing Trials, Mental Illness, Sickness, Suicide, Hopelessness
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Alzheimer's patient loses sense of identity
Themes: Identity in Christ, Mental Illness, Sickness, Self-Image, Self-Worth
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Alzheimer's patient describes struggle of her life
Themes: Facing Trials, Loss, Mental Illness, Sickness, Storms of Life, Memories
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Play depicts souls of dead absorbed into ozone
Themes: Afterlife, Eternity, Heaven and Hell, Love