History Film / AlicesRestaurant

* WeddingEnding: The last scene in the film involves Ray and Alice's hippie-style wedding.

* AutobiographicalRole: Arlo Guthrie plays himself. Stockbridge police chief William Obanhein ("Officer Obie") plays himself, reportedly on the basis that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool. Folk singer Music/PeteSeeger plays himself. Actually, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXbigAuy0xo the whole town of Stockbridge (more or less)]] played themselves.

* HolyGround: Alice and Ray live in a former church, which was in the process deconsecration when we first meet them.

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-->'''Doctor:''' Turn your head and cough...Turn your head and cough...Turn your head and cough...''(Arlo's turn)'' Turn your hat and cough...

* CerberusSyndrome: The movie recounts about all the events of "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree", but the true emphasis is on the miserable marriage of Alice and her alcoholic husband.

* ThanksgivingDayStory

* AutobiographicalRole: Arlo Guthrie plays himself. Stockbridge police chief William Obanhein ("Officer Obie") plays himself, reportedly on the basis that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool. Singer Music/PeteSeeger plays himself. Actually, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXbigAuy0xo the whole town of Stockbridge (more or less)]] played themselves.

* AutobiographicalRole: Arlo Guthrie plays himself. Stockbridge police chief William Obanhein ("Officer Obie") plays himself, reportedly on the basis that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool. Singer Pete Seeger plays himself. Actually [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXbigAuy0xo the whole town of Stockbridge, more or less,]] played themselves.

''Alice's Restaurant'' is a 1969 film, directed by Arthur Penn (his follow-up to ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'') and inspired by the title song of the Arlo Guthrie album ''Music/AlicesRestaurant''. (The song itself is officially named "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree", but is frequently also called "Alice's Restaurant".)

''Alice's Restaurant'' is a 1969 film, directed by Arthur Penn (his follow-up to ''Film/BonnieAndClyde''), inspired by the title song of the Arlo Guthrie album ''Music/AlicesRestaurant''. (The song itself is officially named "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree", but is frequently also called "Alice's Restaurant".)

The film, like the song, is loosely autobiographical. Arlo Guthrie plays himself.

* HolyGround: Alice's restaurant is in a former church, and it has to be deconsecrated before Alice can set up shop.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The bare outlines of the film are fact-based (Arlo Guthrie going to Montana and then heading back east to visit his old friends Alice and Ray[[note]]Ray was his high school shop teacher[[/note]], who lived in an old church, only get caught littering and then having to deal with the draft board, while Alice opens a restaurant), but it's largely fictionalized beyond that, to the extent that Alice Brock wasn't entirely comfortable with the final results.

''Alice's Restaurant'' 1969 film inspired by the title song of the Arlo Guthrie album ''Music/AlicesRestaurant''. (The song itself is officially named "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree", but is frequently also called "Alice's Restaurant".)

* CompressedHair: Arlo long hippie locks concealed under his hat when hitching a ride with the redneck truck driver. At the reveal, the truck driver's reaction is very much PleaseKeepYourHatOn.

* ThanksgivingDay