I really enjoyed this adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel. Julianne Moore certainly delivers an Oscar-worthy performance. I thought the best acting, however, was the line Kate Bosworth delivered, when she said she loved hot dogs. Believable.

Although human beings suffer from various diseases, the most difficult disease among themselves and their families will be dementia.What did I do now? How do I make coffee? Where is the bathroom? Why does he pretend to know me?If we do not have memories, can we say that we are living people?The film is well described as to what happens when you get dementia, which is enough to shock the viewer. A similar movie is The Notebook (2004).PS: Thanks for reading. Please understand that my English is not good. ^^

I felt so sad about the Alice and I cried a lot during the film. I liked it so much and think it is good for our parents to watch this film and be grateful about their health, but paradoxically I feel it will depress them a lot and may has a negative impact on older people, so I don't know o whom I can recommend it!

I will not belabor the points made by so many who have already contributed glowing reviews to this movie, which features one of my favorite actresses (Julianne Moore) deliver one of her finest performances. There was one note, however, which I found to be incredibly ham-fisted and which detracted from my overall enjoyment of an otherwise outstanding movie:SPOILER ALERT!!!! =================In the scene where Alice is about to drink down all of the Rohypnol tablets which she hoarded while still lucid and coherent, at the EXACT moment that she raised the tablets to her lips, the front door slammed shut as her daughter entered the house, alarmed that her mother had been left alone for the day. Of course, in true Hollywood fashion, this caused Alice to drop all of the tablets to the floor! PLEASE -- PLEASE -- PLEASE do not insult me as a viewer with such a ham-fisted plot device! Rather let the daughter enter the home a half hour later, in time to have the hospital revive her mother -- or rework the ending so that this scene becomes the final scene. But DON'T INSULT ME AS A VIEWER WITH SUCH A TRITE, PREDICTABLE NARRATIVE! (Also, Rohypnol is not available for prescription in the United States -- it may only be imported by travelers from other nations, in strictly limited supplies. How did Alice's physician prescribe this sleeping pill, and where did Alice fill the prescription? This is not nitpicking -- these are valid observations, and a reworking of the script should have caught and remedied these errors, the first being far, far more serious than the latter two.)This heavy-handed and blatantly false note detracted from my enjoyment of what was in all other respects an extremely moving, deeply touching experience. Obviously, this is not a movie which one ENJOYS watching -- but it DOES offer the viewer a portal through which to view the world of both an ALZ patient and the caregivers for such patients.Julianne Moore certainly outdid herself in this role. It will be very difficult for her to rise to so high a bar in future productions ("Children of Men" came close, albeit an earlier work than "Still Alice")....PHILIP CHANDLER