Still

Alice
Starring Julianne Moore
Alec Baldwin
Kristen Stewart
Still Alice

Directed by:
• Richard Glatzer
• Wash Westmoreland

Written by:
• Richard Glatzer
• Wash Westmoreland
• Lisa Genova
 Still Alice
A drama about Alice Howland
and her loving family and how
they deal with the tragic
development of her early onset
Alzheimer's Disease and the
possible genetic downstream.
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 Alice Howland, 50, is a linguistic professor at Columbia

University. She is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's
Disease (Early on-set) that causes her memory to prematurely
decline. Her condition becomes a hindrance to her
prestigious career and relationship with her family.
 Because this is a genetic disorder, her three grown children
have been given the opportunity for early testing to
determine if they have the gene. Her son, did not carry the
gene, her daughter, Lydia did not want to know the results,
and her eldest daughter tested positive for the gene.
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 She first notices memory loss during a speech
she was giving and then again as she was
exercising on campus and lost her sense of
direction.
 After her diagnosis, her health and brain begin to
decline. Alice begins to find difficulties in
ordinary tasks at work and at home. She
struggles with finding a new normal as she
knowingly deteriorates.
 She is let go from her position at work and begins
to accept the fate of her illness.
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Living with her illness...
Alice works to memorize words. Every
morning, she answers personal questions
that she has saved on her phone.

Alice contemplates suicide in which she

plans to take sleeping pills. She creates a
video message explaining to herself how
to overdose on the pills once she is
unable to answer her saved questions.

Alice plays the game Words with Friends

in aiming to keep her mind sharp.
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Confusion sets in...

 Alice is unable to identify her actress

daughter Lydia in a performance.
 Alice does not recognize her oldest daughter,
Anne after she has given birth to her twins.
 Alice becomes disoriented in their vacation
home and is incapable of locating the
bathroom.
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Alice's husband John moves

to Minnesota after accepting
Alice's daugher Lydia moves
In the end... a new job offer because he
home to care for her.
finds it difficult to watch her
regress.
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Closing Scene:
Alice and Lydia sit together as
Lydia reads an excerpt of Angels
in America to her mother. When
finished, she asks Alice her
thoughts on it. Almost unable to
speak, she dramatically projects
the word "love."