Alice’s Restaurant

If your up to watching something unconventional please check out Alice’s Restuarant…..also based on the song:

Alice’s Restaurant (film)

Alice’s Restaurant
MGM Home Video DVD
Directed by	Arthur Penn
Produced by	Hillard Elkins Joseph Manduke
Written by	Arlo Guthrie Venable Herndon Arthur Penn
Starring	Arlo Guthrie Pat Quinn James Broderick Pete Seeger Lee Hays
Music by	Arlo Guthrie Garry Sherman
Cinematography	Michael Nebbia
Editing by	Dede Allen
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	August 19, 1969
Running time	111 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

For information on the song, see: Alice’s Restaurant.

Alice’s Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie’s most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965. The movie reproduces the events of the song, in addition to other scenes.

The movie is directed and co-written by Arthur Penn and stars Guthrie as himself, Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and James Broderick as Ray Brock, with the real Alice making a cameo appearance. In the scene where Ray and friends are installing insulation, she is wearing a brown turtleneck top and has her hair pulled into a ponytail. In the Thanksgiving-dinner scene, she is wearing a bright pink blouse. In the wedding scene, she is wearing a Western-style dress.

Stockbridge police chief William Obanhein (”Officer Obie”) played himself in the film version, explaining to Newsweek magazine that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool.

The film also features the first film appearance of character actor M. Emmet Walsh, playing the Group W Sergeant; and a cameo appearance by Lee Hays, American folksinger and songwriter, playing a Reverend at an Evangelical Meeting.

The movie version of “Alice’s Restaurant” was released on August 19, 1969, a few days after Guthrie appeared at the Woodstock Festival.

Website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant_%28film%29