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Alice's Restaurant

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You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant, but the only thing music icon Arlo Guthrie needs is a good Thanksgiving dinner. After he gets his fill, Guthrie's run-in with the law over a trumped-up littering charge leads to a unique way of avoiding the Vietnam War draft. This film by Arthur Penn is based on Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant" and co-stars James Broderick, Patricia Quinn, Pete Seeger and Lee Hays.
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Netflix Rating: 3.2
NYT Critics' Pick: The dangers of hippies throwing out the trash. Pungent 60's crazy-quilt. Read the review
Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics: [Penn] has transformed a charming shaggy-dog story into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era. full review

TIME Magazine, TIME Magazine

Penn's genius overtakes the dropout romance, like a final post-bacchanal hangover that suggests liberation as an El Dorado dream. full review

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

There are occasional flashes of wry humor and some rib-tickling sequences. But they are all too few. full review

Variety Staff, Variety

Good work in a minor key. full review

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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Directed By

Arthur Penn

Cast

James Broderick, Patricia Quinn, Pete Seeger, M. Emmet Walsh

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