A new trailer and poster for the Sundance premiering Alice dropped online at the tail end of last week. The film is written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden and stars KeKe Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles, Alicia Witt, and NaTasha Yvette Williams. You can watch the Alice movie trailer in the YouTube player below.
Alice movie trailer: KeKe Palmer is out for revenge in this decent Sundance debuter
Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation. After a violent clash with its brutal and disturbed owner, Paul (Jonny Lee Miller), she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation. Inspired by true events, Alice is a modern empowerment story tracing Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.
I caught this one at Sundance and rather liked it, despite a few concerns with some of the narrative. I said in my original review:
It’s not a bad movie by any stretch, but it feels like one that has managed to have had a great idea that hasn’t been fully exploited. The performances are perhaps its big selling point, Palmer and Miller the clear stand-outs, but it sadly manages to miss the mark in terms of the pacing and a rather lackluster payoff.
Still, it’s not a film I walked away from feeling let down by. It has interesting ideas, a great soundtrack and a serious message at the heart of proceedings, too.
You can read the full review here.
Here’s the Alice movie trailer and poster for the movie.
