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FRANKIE & ALICE is a moving psychological drama based on the harrowing true story of Frankie Murdoch (Halle Berry), a woman suffering with multiple personality disorder in early 1970s Los Angeles. Dir... read more read more...ected by Geoffrey Sax, and shot by by Newton Thomas Sigel (Valkyrie, X-Men, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, The Usual Suspects), the film also stars Stellan Skarsgård (upcoming The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Phylicia Rashad (For Colored Girls) and Chandra Wilson ("Grey's Anatomy"). -- (C) Official Site

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R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax

Release Date: February 4, 2011

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  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    June 1, 2011
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    Turn back, look forward

    Good decent movie. The acting was really good actually but the story wasn't that interesting although it had a good ending in which it explained a lil the complicated story.

    The movie is based on true events.

    Halle Berry plays the role of young woman n... read moreamed Francine L. Murdoch (Frankie) with multiple personality disorder. The movie starts in Savannah, Georgia 1957, where a girl is shown in a car accident.

    The movie is forwarded to present Los Angeles, California 1978, where Frankie works in strip club. One night after an altercation Frankie lands up in Pearce psychiatric hospital where she is introduced to Dr. Joseph Oswald (Dr. Oz).

    Later Dr. Oz starts treating Frankie for multiple personality disorder and diagnoses her as having three personalities.

    1) Francine L. Murdoch, Black Female Age 32, IQ 132 Right handed. 2) Alice, White female Age ?, IQ 102 Left handed. 3) Genius, Black Female Age 8-12, IQ 156 Right handed.

    The story then revolves with Dr. Oz and Frankie where he treats her for the multiple personality disorder. In due course of time he is able to discover the other two sub conscious personality and make Frankie realize her problem.

    And the movie ends with credit as below:

    Dr Oz treated Frankie until she was able to control her condition. He died in 2001.

    Frankie (with help from Genius) became a High School Teacher. She married a psychiatrist.
  • fb796967648
    February 14, 2011
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    With I'm sure the best of intentions (and not a little hope for Oscar's roving eye), Halle Berry stars in (and produces) this big-screen Lifetime movie about a woman afflicted with a fractured personality who meets a kindly doctor who helps her Break Through To Find Herself. If ... read moreany part of that sentece appeals to you, this flick might be for you. Berry is deeply sincere and throws herself into the proceedings full tilt, and there is pleasure to be derived from that I guess, but if you don't sense trouble in the opening credits when six (SIX) writers are credited on this one psychological drama, then maybe this one's for you. For me? Not so much.
  • fb720603734
    November 29, 2010
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    Great performance by Halle Berry in a ho-hum film about a woman with multiple personalities. The film feels more SCRIBBLE than SYBIL as it's kind of patched together by about 100 writers in fairly broad strokes. Not bad, not boring, just fairly standard-issue mental illness fa... read morere here. The revelations aren't terribly surprising, and the main character's journey doesn't completely engage...but still, Berry digs deep and gives it everything she's got, which is considerable. I loved her, especially in her early scenes as a stripper, where her character is at her loosest. Phylicia Rashad and Chandra Wilson, as mother and sister respectively, don't have a lot to do, but they do it well. Stellan Skarsgard is warmer than usual and is a fine match for Berry here. Not much else to say. It's a "wow" within a "meh".
  • leekyle1968
    January 22, 2011
    leekyle1968
    Well i had heard little and nothing about this flick and only finding out about it after i saw that Halle Berry was nominated for a golden globe and reading the review and sypnosis to this hidden away little flick and found out it was a true life case of a woman with split perso... read morenalitie disorder. Halle plays a stripper named Frankie whose little mood swings have all but frightened the crap out of her coworkers and boss. It turns out these mood swings are alot more serious and turn out to be s.p.d. Frankie has two others sharing her tired little body, one a frightened but smartas a whip 9yr old girl who her psychiatrist Dr. Oz (Stellan Skarsgard) names genius and an racist white woman named Alice. As the movie rolls along we find out that their is alot of history that inspired Frankie to take on these alter personas and can be triggered by something as simple as a song on the radio. An overall good film that lot of reviwers and critics have been calling a Sybil rip off ( I dont call it that but the mental illness is the same thats for sure) Berry's nomination for the golden globe failed and wasnt won as it went to Natalie Portman's performance in Black Swan (another acting job that was well deserved of the win) however she once again pulled off a solid job along with a stellar performance in this film.
  • bamadeb77
    January 21, 2011
    bamadeb77
    this movie is amazing....halle berry did a wonderful job!!!! wow
  • officiallyme
    June 23, 2011
    officiallyme
    eh.. im really iffy about this movie but i've gotta give it 3 stars because her acting was so amazing in this film. besides that though... it was a bit frustrating and anti-climatic by the end

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Critic Reviews

Peter Rainer
February 19, 2011
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

It's not just Frankie who is putting on a show here. Berry is also overemphatically showing off her chops. Full Review

Peter Travers
December 17, 2010
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

This movie, with its flashbacks to past sins and traumas, rests squarely on Berry, a mesmerizer who makes every moment count. Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
December 1, 2010
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

A hokey old-school drama of multiple personality disorder based, in the tradition of The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil, on a real case study. Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
February 11, 2011
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Common Sense Media

May look like an attempt to win another Oscar for Berry, and she does give a powerful performance here. Full Review

Sean Gandert
February 4, 2011
Sean Gandert, Paste Magazine

Other than the A-list actors and high production values, there's little to nothing differentiating the film from any made-for-TV movie on Lifetime. Full Review

Brian Orndorf
February 3, 2011
Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

A feature so eager for statues it practically provides a pen and a reading light to help with any potential award ballot situation that might arise after watching it. Full Review

Armond White
February 2, 2011
Armond White, New York Press

Frankie and Alice is the kind of grandstanding that exposes an actress' pathetic dependence on approval by others. Full Review

Prairie Miller
January 31, 2011
Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

Less a revealing or dramatically involving case study, than an inmate taking over the asylum kind of vibe, as it lurches towards the end credits essentially way over the top. Full Review

Marshall Fine
January 31, 2011
Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

This material feels thin, like something you'd see on the Lifetime or WE networks. It was good enough to earn a Golden Globe nomination (but who can trust those people?). Full Review

Laura Clifford
January 24, 2011
Laura Clifford, Reeling Reviews

Berry's transformations...come across as borderline silly due to the sensationalistic treatment given this tawdry film. Full Review

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