Frankie & Alice

Frankie & Alice
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeoffrey Sax
Screenplay byCheryl Edwards
Marko King
Mary King
Jonathan Watters
Joe Shrapnel
Anna Waterhouse
Story byOscar Janiger
Philip Goldberg
Cheryl Edwards
Produced byHalle Berry
Vince Cirrincione
Simon DeKaric
Hassain Zaidi
StarringHalle Berry
Stellan Skarsgård
CinematographyNewton Thomas Sigel
Edited byDavid M. Richardson
Music byAndrew Lockington
Production
company
Access Motion Pictures
Distributed byCodeBlack Films
Lions Gate Entertainment
(United States)
Release dates
  • May 17, 2010 (2010-05-17) (Cannes)
  • December 10, 2010 (2010-12-10) (United States)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Box office$706,546[1]

Frankie & Alice is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Geoffrey Sax, starring Halle Berry. Filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia, in November 2008, and ended in January 2009. To qualify for awards season, the film opened in a limited release on December 10, 2010. It is based on a true story about a popular go-go dancer/stripper in the 1970s who has dissociative identity disorder.

While the film received mixed reviews from critics, Berry's performance was widely praised and she received several accolades, including a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

Plot

Frankie is performing at a Los Angeles club in 1973. She is one of the best strippers at the club, and often attracts the attention of wealthy businessmen. One night, the club's female employees go out for a "Girls Night". As the girls observe all the men at the bar, Frankie gets the attention of a well-known bartender. She agrees to go to his home for sex. Before the two can engage in any sexual activity, Frankie switches to an alter ego, and cracks the man's head open with a picture frame. Word of Frankie's violent activity spreads to the strip club quickly, and Frankie is fired from the needed job. Similar episodes occur while Frankie is at the laundromat and at a wedding.

Frankie starts psychotherapy with Doctor Oz. During a session, Frankie learns that she has two alters: Genius, a seven-year-old child; and Alice, a Southern white racist, whom Frankie struggles to overcome. Through regular sessions with Dr. Oz, Frankie begins to recall the traumatic events that led to the dissociative splits in her personality. She realizes that when she was a teenager she was in love with a white man who died in a car accident while they were on the road. In the same session, she also connects with the memory of the birth of her child. Moments after the birth, Frankie's mother realizes that the child is half-white and kills it, thus triggering Frankie's personality to split.

After she watches the taped sessions, and puts everything together, Frankie begins the healing process, taking control of her life and semi-integrating the personalities that Dr. Oz assures her will always be present.

Cast

Production

The film spent a decade in development, with Berry involved in the project since the mid-1990s.[2][3] Filming took place in 2008.[2]

Release

Frankie & Alice had its world premiere in May 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival.[2] It went on to screen at the AFI Film Festival that November, and was given a limited release in the United States on December 10, 2010, to qualify for awards.[2] The film's producers, Access Motion Pictures, had planned for a wider release the following February, but these plans did not materialize even as Berry was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an NAACP Image Award for her performance.[2]

In September 2013, Codeblack Films acquired distribution rights to the film.[4][2] The film was given a wider re-release on April 4, 2014.[5]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 21% based on reviews from 33 critics. The website's critics consensus states: "Halle Berry gives it her all (and then some), but Frankie & Alice is ultimately too narratively strained and clumsily assembled to do her performance justice."[6] On Metacritic it has a score of 47% based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[7]

Writing of the Cannes Film Festival screening, The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "a well-wrought psychological drama that delves into the dark side of one woman's psyche". The review also said Halle Berry was "spellbinding" as Frankie, with "rock-solid" supporting performances.[8]

Accolades

References

  1. ^ "Frankie & Alice". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Khatchatourian, Maane (April 2, 2014). "Why Did Halle Berry's 'Frankie & Alice' Languish on the Shelf?". Variety. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Frankie & Alice". VincentCirrincione.com. January 21, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  4. ^ Shaw, Lucas (September 25, 2013). "Halle Berry Film 'Frankie & Alice' Acquired by Codeblack Films for 2014 Release". Yahoo!. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  5. ^ "Frankie & Alice (2014 Re-release)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  6. ^ "Frankie & Alice (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  7. ^ "Frankie & Alice". Metacritic. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  8. ^ Byrge, Duane (October 15, 2010). "Frankie & Alice". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013.
  9. ^ Knegt, Peter (December 13, 2010). "African-American Critics Go For "The Social Network"". IndieWire. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  10. ^ Cane, Clay (December 14, 2010). "African-American Film Critics Association Honors Halle Berry and 'The Social Network'". BET. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  11. ^ "Frankie and Alice". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  12. ^ Frankel, Daniel (March 6, 2011). "The 42nd NAACP Image Awards: Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Retrieved March 10, 2023.

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