Still Alice
2014 film by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
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- Still Alice is a 2014 American tragedy film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova.
- Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, and Hunter Parrish play her children.
- Moore was their first choice for Howland, and researched Alzheimer's disease for months to prepare.
- Still Alice had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014.
- The film was released theatrically on January 16, 2015, and grossed $43.
Still Alice is a 2014 American tragedy film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova. It stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer's disease. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, and Hunter Parrish play her children.
Glatzer and Westmoreland were approached by Lex Lutzus and James Brown to adapt Genova's novel in 2011, when Glatzer had just been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Moore was their first choice for Howland, and researched Alzheimer's disease for months to prepare. The film was shot in New York in March 2014, with a budget of $4 million.
Still Alice had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014. It was one of several films stolen in the Sony Pictures hack and leaked online on November 27, 2014. The film was released theatrically on January 16, 2015, and grossed $43.9 million at the international box office. It received positive reviews, with praise for Moore's performance, which won awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress. She dedicated her Academy Award win to Glatzer, who died from ALS in March 2015. The film was included among the year's top ten independent films by the National Board of Review.
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