Alice's Restaurant

Alice's Restaurant

111 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Aug. 20, 1969

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump, but finds it closed for the holiday, so he just dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested, and sends him on a bizarre journey that ends with him in front of the draft board.

Alice's Restaurant

111 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Aug. 20, 1969

Alice's Restaurant
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump, but finds it closed for the holiday, so he just dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested, and sends him on a bizarre journey that ends with him in front of the draft board.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Elkins Entertainment
Original title Alice's Restaurant
Directors Barbara Rittenberg, Arthur Penn
Writers Arlo Guthrie, Venable Herndon, Arthur Penn

Cast

Arlo Guthrie

as Arlo Guthrie

Pat Quinn

as Alice Brock

James Broderick

as Ray Brock

Tina Chen

as Mari-chan

Geoff Outlaw

as Roger Crowther

Pete Seeger

as Himself

Lee Hays

as Himself

Kathleen Dabney

as Karin

William Obanhein

as Himself - Officer Obie

Seth Allen

as Evangelist

Monroe Arnold

as Blueglass

Joseph Boley

as Woody Guthrie

Vinnette Carroll

as Draft Clerk

Sylvia Davis

as Marjorie Guthrie

Simm Landres

as Private Jacob / Jake

Eulalie Noble

as Ruth

Louis Beachner

as Dean

MacIntyre Dixon

as 1st Deconsecration Minister

Arthur Pierce Middleton

as 2nd Deconsecration Minister

Donald Marye

as Funeral Director

Shelley Plimpton

as Reenie

M. Emmet Walsh

as Group W Sergeant

Ron Weyand

as Cop #1

Eleanor D. Wilson

as Landlady

Thomas De Wolfe

as Waiter

James Hannon

as Himself

Graham Jarvis

as Music Teacher

John E. Quill

as Cop #2

Frank Simpson

as Sergeant

Alice Brock

as Suzy