Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 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 accounts, Alice is a modern empowerment story tracing Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.
IN US THEATERS MARCH 18.
I AM FREEDOM.
See Keke Palmer and Common in a thrilling story of empowerment, revenge and justice in #AliceMovie. In US theaters March 18
Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 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 accounts, Alice is a modern empowerment story tracing Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.
Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is 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 accounts, Alice is a modern empowerment story tracing Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.
A rousing, empowering fable. Keke Palmer is phenomenal in this crowd-pleaser that sprints toward its big cheers
Keke Palmer gives a superb performance…this movie is a portrait of what real change looks like — and a call to keep going.
A “bold and enlightening feature debut…high-concept, deftly-executed drama”
