History Film / StillAlice

* BittersweetEnding: Alice's condition is irreversible and she's [[spoiler:now almost unable to speak, but Alice and Lydia do share possibly one of their last meaningful moments together and Alice's final word in the movie is 'love']]. Under the circumstances it's about as happy as you could possibly hope for.

''Still Alice'' is a 2014 drama film starring Creator/JulianneMoore, Creator/AlecBaldwin, and Creator/KristenStewart, based on the bestselling 2007 novel of the same name written by Creator/LisaGenova.

''Still Alice'' is a 2014 drama film starring Creator/JulianneMoore, Creator/AlecBaldwin, and Creator/KristenStewart, based on the bestselling 2007 novel of the same name written by Lisa Genova.

* InTheBlood: Alice's type of Alzheimer's disease is hereditary.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Alice's Alzheimer's progresses much more rapidly than happens in reality, even in its early-onset form. When she experiences her first very minor symptoms, her daughter is visibly pregnant, by the time her daughter gives birth, Alice can barely speak and is incapable of taking basic care of herself.

* AdultFear: The type of Alzheimer's that Alice has is genetic; if her kids have the same gene, they will get the same type. Her eldest daughter gets tested [[spoiler:and finds out that she has a 100% chance of someday getting Alzheimer's; she just has to sit and wait for a decade or two]].

* SuicideIsShameful: A big part of the plot is Alice both bargaining with "how far" she can allow herself to go before she should rather kill herself and how much taboo suicide is. [[spoiler: Ultimately she ends up in a vegetative state and one of her last conscious decisions is a failed suicide attempt, while she always pushed the decision for later when she was still in mental capacity to go through it]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Alice's Alzheimer's progresses much more rapidly than happens in reality, even in its early-onset form. When she experiences her first minor symptoms, her daughter is visibly pregnant, by the time the daughter gives birth, Alice can barely speak and is incapable of taking basic care of herself.

-->"I know what I'm feeling. I know what it's feeling, and it feels like my brain is fucking dying."

''Still Alice'' is a 2014 drama film, starring Creator/JulianneMoore, Creator/AlecBaldwin, and Creator/KristenStewart. The film is based on the novel of the same title written by Lisa Genova.

Dr. Alice Howland (Moore) is a renowned professor of linguistics at Columbia University, mother to three adult children, and wife to Dr. John Howland (Baldwin), a prominent physician. As she begins having lapses in memory, she undergoes testing and learns that she has early-onset Alzheimer's Disease. She then struggles to cope with her failing memory, which begins to exert a strain on her family.

The film was well-received, with a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Julianne Moore's performance netted her an Oscar for Best Actress.

!!This Film Contains Examples Of:

* DespairEventHorizon: Alice eventually falls over this as her memory fails.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Alice attempts to make sure she commits suicide when her Alzheimer's becomes so progressed she cannot remember even basic questions like where she lives. It fails.]]
* {{Fauxshadowing}} The film invests considerable time in setting us up for Alice to kill herself once the disease has progressed beyond a certain point. [[spoiler: However, her attempt fails when she spills the pills on the floor and can't remember what they're for]]

* GloryDays: A tragic example. Near the end, Alice and John are eating ice-cream near Columbia University. The disease is noticeably progressed, but Alice recalls someone tell her she used to teach there and says 'I used to be smart'.

* InTheBlood: Alice's type of Alzheimer's Disease is hereditary.
* ManlyTears: John feels he's failed Alice by leaving Lydia to look after her while he moves cities for work. Lydia reassures him however.

* PottyFailure: A single scene later in the film has Alice urinate in her pants because she no longer can remember where the bathroom is in her own home.

* ProductPlacement: Apple, Pinkberry, and Words With Friends get extensive screentime. Especially noticeable in the scene where Alice eats at Pinkberry the first time, the bowl is turned so as to perfectly display the logo to the camera.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Alice's intelligence is shown by what words she uses playing ''Words With Friends,'' like "document" and "hadji." Part of her daily memory self-tests also involve her trying to remember long words. Justified because she is a linguistics professor. It also shows the progress of her condition when she puts down "tone" for 5 points despite having decent letters. Eventually, her daughter stops playing with her.

* TimeSkip: There's a time-skip between a scene where Alice panics having lost her phone because of the importance of her self-made memory test and the phone being found one month later.

* ChekhovsGun: Soon after her diagnosis, [[spoiler:Alice records a video allowing her to find [[DrivenToSuicide a bottle of pills to take once she's advanced too far]]. She ends up not taking it]].