Frankie (Halle Berry) is a go-go dancer who is struggling with multiple personality disorder (and does her best to try and hide it from her friends and employers). However, one such outburst lands Frankie in jail and in order to avoid jail-time she voluntarily checks herself into a psychiatric hospital. Once there she decides to work with psychotherapist Oz (Stellan Skarsgard)in order to try to gain an understanding of the inner ghosts that haunt her.As well as being the leading actress in this film Halle Berry is also one of the producers so this project clearly meant quite a lot to her - this is perhaps reflected in her performance here and I could see that she really gave this her all. The story is reasonably interesting and the film is well-paced, if not particularly well-structured. So on the one hand, you get a strong lead performance with few, if any, dull moments but there were a few things that kept gnawing away at me whilst I was watching Frankie & Alice...The film is structured with a non-linear narrative and normal films of this nature can be difficult to follow, but when you have a non-linear narrative in a film dealing with multiple personalities it does become a bit too much from time to time - this wasn't helped by the fact that in the early stages of the film that I was struggling to get to grips with which personality was which and how each personality slotted into the story. In the latter stages of the film I was starting to get my head round it all, but it was a struggle at times. Halle Berry's performance is good and certainly memorable, but sadly I didn't always find the screenplay complimented her performance all that well - I didn't think that her other personalities were developed as well as they could have been meaning that I found that I couldn't quite connect with/or get into Frankie's mind-set as much as I should have been able to.Despite my objections above, the film has enough of interest about it to make it worth watching and as already mentioned Halle Berry gives a stellar performance (albeit at times it's a slightly overwhelming one/two woman type performance).

Frankie and Alice was a film that came out in 2010 but for some reason didn't come out until a couple of years later. If ever there were a reason to give Halle Berry another academy award, it would be for this film! Frankie and Alice is gut wrenching, soulful and sometimes painful to watch. Especially when Halle's character Frankie revisits memories of her love life. Frankie's mother played by the equally great Phylicia Rashad is a maid working for a wealthy Caucasian family and Frankie begins a love affair with the son of the wealthy family that ends in tragedy when the love of Frankie's life is killed in an auto accident. Halle's performance in Frankie and Alice is nothing short of amazing. It's a great study about the human mind as well as the psyche of a person who has gone through a tremendous amount of emotional pain and trauma. I recommend this film to anyone curious about multiple personality disorder or for anyone who has personally gone through it.

"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.

In this movie, Halle Barry's character is Frankie Murdoch; and one of her consulting pysch doctors is a character portrayed by actor Matt Frewer of NBC's The A-Team fame. He also played Murdoch, as in Howling Mad Murdoch...very subtle, guys...not bad. Im also curious whether the Academy will put her up for another Oscar nod or not...I'm just saying. When I went to see this, I thought it was going to be more like that final movie of Brittany Murphy and Michael Douglas, by like a previous reviewer, I felt this was not her best work...It just seemed forced, un-natural, and stilted, and I know she is a much better actress than that. I did enjoy seeing Phylicia Rashad and Matt Frewer in action, as they did not disappoint.