| "Alice" is a very thought-provoking fantasy film | | | | moments, so she can spy on people she's curious |
| directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow. The | | | | about. Other herbs have other strange effects, |
| story is very entertaining and the acting is quite good, | | | | including one she burns, which causes the ghost of a |
| particuarly Mia's role. "Alice" is much like many of | | | | former lover of hers to appear, and one which will |
| Woody's later, more serious films, though it still contains | | | | make any man who takes it fall in love with her. |
| a great deal of humor. | | | | From her experiments with the herbs, Alice comes to |
| The movie concerns a rich but unhappy housewife | | | | learn much better who she is and what she wants out |
| named Alice (Farrow), who lives in Manhattan. She | | | | of life. Although she has the chance to use the love |
| decides to see a Chinese herbalist for back pains, but | | | | potion to either make Joe or her husband fall in love |
| he tells her the problem is in her head. He prescibes | | | | with her again, she decides not to use it. Instead, she |
| several unusual herbs for her with magical properties. | | | | travels to India, where she meets Mother Theresa. |
| The first one makes her act seductively to an | | | | I have heard some people criticize Alice for being |
| attactive young man named Joe, whom she has a | | | | racist in the way it depicts Chinese, though I disagree. |
| crush on. Shortly thereafter, the two begin having an | | | | The complaint I've heard is in regard to a scene in |
| affair. The second herb makes her invisible at critical | | | | which Alice finds the herbalist in an opium alley. |