Go Ask Alice

1973 "A teenage girl's downward spiral into drug addiction."
6| 1h14m| en
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A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

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VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
jcain1635 I can see the charm in propaganda films that are well made or fun to poke fun at. This was just dreadfully boring. Things just happen. The characters have no real motivations. The acting is just bad enough to be annoying. The camera work is all flat shots. I would prefer to be waterboarded than to watch this dull film again.
terryshilo I remember watching this with my sister and parents when it was first broadcast on TV. For it's time it pushed the envelope though realizing by today's standards it's kitschy with innuendo and a carefully crafted script to keep it within broadcast standards of the time. It was very good, and did a fair job of scaring some kids to not try drugs. I think the most our group did as teens was 8 people sharing a joint which had no effect; though, sadly I did know friends and kids in school to totally screw up with drugs, a couple died. It served it;s purpose at the time, it would be fodder to today's teens that hear much worse watching television commercials, that are barraged worse than the drug culture of the late 60's early 70's. I love Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplanes original version of Go Ask Alice "White Rabbit" which they did not use in the film.
mayarovina-606-28555 A sensational made for T.V cautionary tale that was base on a - so called, true diary of a teenage drug victim - with the emphasis on VICTIM. Not only was the book written by a middle aged woman who also just happened to be a devout Mormon, so that pre-marital sex is portrayed as AT LEAST as destructive as drugs, but the dialogue has a very phony and clichéd sound to it. This is not helped b the fact that all the " teenagers " are portrayed by actors in their twenties, an that the lead actress is completely vacant and one dimensional from the onset. The ending is also ridiculous. If you want to see a realistic film about teenage junkies in the late seventies ( all the kids are played by actual teenagers of the relevant age ) may I recommend Christiane F. it's gritty and still shocking after more than thirty years.
kjm914a Go Ask Alice is a fraud of a book and an equally fraudulent movie. The book that this weak, inauthentic TV movie was based on was written by a middle-aged British woman pretending to be an adolescent American girl. The language is all wrong: "telly," "mum" . . . it's all ridiculous for starters, plus the effects she ascribes to certain drugs (pot, speed, and LSD, for starters) are obviously based on antidrug propaganda and not on any first-hand experience.OK, now to this pallid attempt at creating a film version of a fraudulent book. Well, shall we talk about the production values? Crappy sets, bad lighting, horrible attempts to simulate the drug experience within the confines of a G-mandated rating and an obvious lack of familiarity with either drugs or even decent cinematic representations of freak-outs (Hitchcock/Dali, Hopper/Fonda). And I guess I don't have to talk about how bad the direction and acting are. That's obvious by looking at the casting and the subsequent credits of the ingenue and the non-cameo actors and actresses.Bad all around--good for a laugh, on a sophomoric level.