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Singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie stars in Alice's Restaurant directed by Arthur Penn (Bonnie & Clyde, The Miracle Worker) from a screenplay by Penn and Venable Herndon. Guthrie, using his musical monologue Alice's Restaurant Massacre as a template, and under Arthur Penn's assured direction, Alice's Restaurant is a free-flowing, free wheeling, counter-culture comedy set during the turbulent 60's adapted from Guthrie's musical monologue Alice's Restaurant Massacre. Guthrie portrays the embodiment of America's youth, a young man who sees his life beginning to unravel through psychedelic drug fueled haze, as he and his friends (and the plot) spin toward an explosive conclusion. Alice's Restaurant also features James Broderick (Dog Day Afternoon) and musician Pete Seeger as Himself.
