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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Jef Films
Salesrank: 19712
Released: July 18, 2006 |
| Our Price: $8.80 |
| Used Price: $35.45 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A teenage girl's downhill spiral into drug addiction. A move to a new school in a new city puts great pressure on Alice, a high school student. Hoping to be liked, she tries desperately to be friendly with the school's "popular" students. Eventually sh
Go Ask Alice Reviews:
Good movie...... 
2009-09-08 - Go Aks Alice the movie is good, but not as good as the book. I have a 12 year old sister that I let read the book then watch the movie. I am hoping that reading the book then watching the movie will be an eye opener for like it was in the 70s. If you loved the book and not yet have watched the movie it is worth the buy. If you have watched the movie Go Ask Alice then you must read the book. The book gives more into what was really going on with Alice.
Really bad transfer of a 70's classic 
2009-07-20 - It was great to see this vintage film from my childhood. Sadly, the transfer quality is awful. The DVD looks like it was mastered from a Beta-max home video copy discovered under a rabbit hutch.
I wasn't expecting an HD experience from a made for TV film 30 years old but it was pretty darn bad.
Almost Laughable 
2009-06-25 - First, the book originally portrayed itself as being the true diary of a young girl who got into drugs. Turned out it wasn't true at all. It was a bunch of adults who decided this is the way they'd get their message of "drugs are bad for you" across to the youngsters. However, no one writes in their diaries in that sort of language. You scribble stuff like "I HATE MY MOTHER" or "why doesn't anyone want me?" Youngster keeping a diary wouldn't use the vocabulary in the diary and they wouldn't even write in complete sentences or with an eye/ear to what that audience will preceive because the diarist is writing to herself and she already knows what's going on. How anyone could believe this was ever written by a lonely, misfit teenager shows just how out of tune adults are. Some of the descriptions of the drug experiences were inaccurate. And this is only the book.
The movie was totally unrealistic and unbelievable. The girl diarist was supposedly so unattractive no one would even talk to her--but the actress playing the part was quite pretty and should have been at least normally popular, even if she was a bit shy. That made no sense (they should have picked a less attractive actress). I know the intention of both the book and the movie was to be morality play to enlighten teenagers but I find this story on a par with Reefer Madness--more a cultist classic because of the phoniness of it all.
Poor quality of recording
2009-04-24 - I ordered the book for my English class. Unfortunately there are no subtitles available and the video quality is also poor. Nevertheless it is a good film for kids who have already read the book.
Still packs a punch after all these years
2009-02-09 - The book made a powerful statement in 1973 when I was 11. I had already read it (which scared the @#$%^ out of me for life) and putting a visual on those scenes haunted my imagination. The film might be laughable 35 years later, considering all the advances in acting and film, but the message is still clear. We thought it was a true story, but whether it is or not, the book packs a serious punch. I know it kept me (and the gang of girls I ran with) straight throughout my teens(in those raucous 70s!). I have students who are reading it now in a Banned Book unit. I still think it should be required reading-its message saved my life every time I was offered weed, speed, coke or one too many drinks. And Grace Slick's song still rings in my ears....
