Still Alice is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on Lisa Genova's 2007 bestselling novel of the same name.
The film stars Julianne Moore in the role of Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alec Baldwin plays her husband John. Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth , and Hunter Parrish play her childrenLydia, Anna, and Tom.
Plot
Dr. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a professor of linguistics at Columbia University, mother of three children and wife to John Howland (Alec Baldwin), learns that she is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's disease. After discovering it was genetically inherited from her father, her children test themselves to see if the disease has been passed to them. The eldest daughter, Anna (Kate Bosworth ), tests positive. Anna is having twins, but they prove not to have the mutated gene. Her only son, Tom, a junior Doctor proves to be negative and her youngest daughter, Lydia (Kristen Stewart), decides not to be tested.
Alice, concerned and afraid for her future and how that will affect those around her, begins to try memorizing random words that she writes and then hides on a blackboard,as well as setting up important personal questions on her phone that she tasks herself with answering every morning. Tagged at the end is a message telling her to go to a video she recorded which instructs her future self to commit suicide via sleeping-pill overdose should she be unable to answer the questions.
Alice's disease progresses, while relations with her family are strained from many separate directions, including the loss of her academic position,her husband's work demands, her continually increasing needs, and Lydia's elusive acting career.
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