Go Ask Alice Movie - The Introduction

Illegally copied Records 329:"#keyword" 1973 made-for-TV film starring William Shatner and Andy Griffith).

Final Seen: We can't verify the last general public screening of this film.

Reason FOR BOOTLEG Standing: Uncertain, although new music clearance rights may be a problem.

Chances of SEEING A Commercial DVD Launch: Oh, Lord, hopefully not!

In 1971, a highly peculiar guide called "Go Ask Alice Movie " turned up on the publishing scene. For several years, "Go Ask Alice Movie " was required studying for impressionable American teenagers and pre-teens.

The industrial success from the book and its deliciously exploitation-friendly topic matter ensured that a film version would occur. But within a disastrous decision, "Go Ask Alice Movie " was not aimed at the big display, where the salacious elements of the book could be mined vigorously. Rather, it had been pointed to ABC-TV as becoming a family friendly, prime time production. As a result, the film model of "Go Ask Alice Movie " will come throughout as 1 of the most confusing and unsatisfactory anti-drug films ever created.

Alice and her household move to a new city, exactly where her father has landed a work as a school professor. But besides the angst of moving, Alice finds herself at constant odds along with her nagging mom (Julie Adams, the one-time star of "The Creature from the Black Lagoon") and distant father (William Shatner, channeling his inner Groucho with dark-rimmed eyeglasses and a bushy mustache)!!!!

Alice is upset more than starting refreshing in the nearby college, and she whines that she's too fat and not nicely dressed. Nevertheless, Alice is played by the beautiful blonde starlet Jamie Smith-Jackson, and her babbling about not becoming attractive is so bizarre that it calls to thoughts the extra fat jokes lobbed at Anne Hathaway in "The Devil Wears Prada."

Sensation like a misfit, Alice naturally bonds with another misfit - a studious girl with ridiculously oversized eyeglasses. (In the book, this outcast gal is Jewish; in the movie, there is no point out of religion.) However, Alice rapidly casts aside this new pal in favor of hanging with a bunch of hunky hippies, including a then-unknown Robert Carradine. In no time, she is hooked on a variety of medication.

After a brief gig as a pusher, Alice and an additional scorching blonde gal named Chris steal $200 from their druggie boyfriends and take a Greyhound bus to California. (I'm sure the Greyhound executives appreciated having their fleet publicized in this movie.) But California is not all sunshine and happiness - Chris abruptly vanishes, leaving Alice to pull meals out of garbage cans and to deal with such unlikely intrusions such as Mackenzie Phillips as a weird runaway and Andy Griffith as being a priest.

Alice returns house and goes back to school. Nevertheless, she becomes some thing of the pariah. The clear kids believe she is a druggie and want absolutely nothing to do with her - except for a dork performed by Charles Martin Smith, who asks to purchase medication. The potheads, although, believe she's a fink for abandoning their narcotized orbit. In fact, the phrase "fink" is sprayed on her locker. Alice sinks out of digital camera range right after a couple of sips and a half-hearted scream, only to reappear in a hospital precisely where her hands and head are heavily bandaged. But it seems that great luck is finally coming Alice's way. Her father's teaching assistant falls in adore with her, a lot to the delight of her parents - who see no problems with getting their under-aged teen daughter being romanced by an grownup. Important characters and sequences that contributed to the diarist's downward spiral had been chopped out from the film, creating an absurdly sketchy melodrama exactly where incidents and characterizations make absolutely no sense in the rush to tell a lurid story. The censorship needs of 1973 network television additional bowdlerized the materials. Graphic sexual abuse is cited inside the book, but it is only vaguely hinted about in the film. Consequently, "Go Ask Alice Movie " will come throughout like a disco-era "Reefer Madness" rather than a serious look in the bodily and psychological damages produced by medication habit.

The film resurfaced in 2000 on a questionable VHS launch that devoted its entire cover to Andy Griffith. It arrived back again in a 2006 DVD launch from a public domain label that featured a hodgepodge artsy cowl with crumpled forex, numerous narcotics and a diary. In each cases, the high quality of print is conspicuously atrocious.

Within the years because its publication, the source materials of "Go Ask Alice Movie" continues to be exposed as being a literary fraud. As for that movie, a serious industrial launch will not take location till new music clearance rights are settled. The film's soundtrack has second-rate covers of first-rate tunes, including "White Rabbit," "Good Vibrations" and "An Old-Fashioned Adore Song." The price of clearing those songs for an official home leisure launch is definitely an investment that few labels are willing to create. But maybe that is just as nicely - someone should Go Ask Alice Movie to give us a much better movie.

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