Alice's Restaurant

Alice's Restaurant

1969 | 1h 51m | Comedy, Drama | TV-MA

Brief Synopsis

A young folksinger becomes a fugitive after dumping trash in the wrong place.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Arthur Penn

CAST

Arlo Guthrie

James Broderick

Michael Mcclanathan

PRODUCERS

Information not available.

WRITERS

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Host Intros

01:46
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Intro Aired: Sep 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Alices Restaurant, 1969.

Related Videos

Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Deconsecration
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Ray (James Broderick) and Alice (Pat Quinn) wait as the church they've bought is "deconsecrated," and pal Arlo (Guthrie) arrives, in Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Girdles Feel Funny
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Arlo (Guthrie) gets money for Ray (James Broderick) and Shelly (Matthew McClanathan) from club owner Ruth (Eulalie Noble), who then solicits Arlo, who splits in his microbus in Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Group W
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Part two of the draft board adventure as Arlo (Guthrie) is sent to "Group W," where M. Emmet Walsh is the officer in charge, from Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Woody
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Arlo Guthrie (playing himself) visits his dying folksinger father Woody (played by Joseph Boley) and mother Marjorie (Sylvia Davis) in a New York hospital in Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger is visiting hospitalized Woody Guthrie (played by Joseph Noble) this time, performing "Pastures of Plenty" and "The Car Song," when son Arlo drops by, in Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Draft Board
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Arlo (Guthrie) visits Whitehall Street and the draft board, in director Arthur Penn's comic expression of the scenes from the famous song, from Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Songs To Aging Children
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A bundled Joni Mitchell performs "Songs to Aging Children" at the snowy funeral for "Shelly," with Alice (Pat Quinn), Ray (James Broderick) and friends attending in Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Excepting Alice...
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Arlo (Guthrie) pulls out, Ray (James Broderick) says goodbye, and Alice (Pat Quinn) in her wedding dress is seen in Arthur Penn's famous closing shot by cinematographer Michael Nebbia, in Alice's Restaurant, 1969.
Alice's Restaurant -- (Movie Clip) Reenie
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Arlo (Guthrie), back in New York on a gig, meets teenage groupie Reenie (Shelley Plimpton) who takes him home, but he doesn't want to catch her cold, in a touching scene from Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant, 1969.

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