Frankie & Alice

2014 "Turn back, look forward"
6.4| 1h41m| R| en| More Info
Released: 04 April 2014 Released
Producted By: Access Motion Pictures
Country: Canada
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://frankieandalice.com/
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A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

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Tuchergson Truly the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater
Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Dusan Petrovic I just love Halle and this movie. This movie was inspired by the true story about the therapy of Anna O by Froyd ( Vienna's shrink and the father of introspection ). He'd been experimentising with hypnose, because he had believed that it would help Anna ( mental patient ) to get better. After a long treatment, he'd succeded in his goal and helped Anna to controle her ealness. After that she'd become a very successful social worker. I would like to thank my first shrink Natasha Caran at Vojvoda Stepa's street, Vozdovac, Belgrade,SR Yugoslavia for everything she had done for me. After seventeen years of treatment, the only thing i could say: " Natasha, I'm alive bacause of you". That was a time and the end of one era. The Yugoslav president Miloshevic'd been taken to the Hag and Vojislav Koshtunica 'd become the new president of Yugoslavia. That was a great victory for democracy and human rights. It was the new beginning and a dawn of another era for Serbian people. P.S. Free your mind. Greetings from Belgrade, Serbia. Sincerelly, yours Dushan Petrovich.
SnoopyStyle Frankie (Halle Berry) is a stripper with multiple personality disorder in 1970s. After an incident, she seeks help from Dr. Oz (Stellan Skarsgård). She lives with her mother Edna Murdoch (Phylicia Rashad) and sister Maxine (Chandra Wilson). She is haunted by memories and forgotten traumas. She disrupts Paige Prescott's wedding and gets thrown in jail. She gets Dr. Oz to evaluate her. She starts to remember her work as the Prescotts' maid and an illicit affair with Paige's brother.This is built for Halle Berry to do some acting work but it isn't much more than that. The secret memories aren't that compelling. It becomes one acting scene from Halle to another. There is an intriguing white racist personality which digs a little deeper and is something different. The story has no drive and no tension.
Tony Heck "Treatment is indefinite and integration is only beginning. The ultimate goal is acceptance." Frankie (Berry) is a go-go dancer with multiple personalities who is trying to straighten out her life. When things become dangerous for her she is taken to a hospital where she meets Oz (Skarsgård), a psychotherapist who tries to help her. He meets all of her personalities and talks with each of them in order to find out Frankie's past and what caused this problem. This is based on a true story. I'll start by saying I have not seen every single movie that Halle Berry has been in but of the ones I have seen I have never been impressed with her acting. Even when she won the Oscar for Monster's Ball I didn't think she deserved it, to me all she did was get naked and cry for a few hours, that doesn't impress me. That said, if I were to give her an award it would be for this one. She plays the different personalities so convincing and different that you believe she has this problem. As for the movie itself it is very good and worth watching even though it did seem to drag a little bit. The fact that this is a true story makes it that much more powerful and if the pacing was a little quicker this would be a fantastic movie. Overall, a movie that is very good and worth seeing especially for Berry's performance. I give this a B.
michellelayfield As one who lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder, I found the film engaging, honest and true to life. I did find it interesting that Dr. Oz refers to Frankie as having Dissociative Identity Disorder--since that name for the disorder was not around in the 1970s. Halle Berry portrays someone with a mental health issue in a convincing way--and portrays the issues of living with DID very well. The movie is well written and cast. My only complaint was that there was too little time spent showing genius...who is her helping alter. I know mine was out a lot more than I was before I became aware of the alters. It took Berry years to get this project out, sadly the release even now is very limited. It would go a long way toward helping others understand this disorder.