Alice's Restaurant is basically a movie themed off a song by Arlo Guthrie.
The movie chronicles a time in Arlo's life in Stockbridge, Mass. Arlo shows up in town to visit Alice and Ray in their new home in a church in Massachusetts. Arlo decides to stay close, gets a job singing in a dive bar and spends time in the creation and design of a commune at the church. They are also very involved with creating and building Alice's actual restaurant.
Amidst the building and creating, you also see the scars of the late 1960's beginning to appear. The draft, the war, the judging of people who look a little different - have a little longer hair. You see anger and lashing out from the conservatives and you see the more free-thinking, free-loving people suffering from it.
If you weren't alive during the 1960's, I personally think that Alice's Restaurant is a pretty good slice of American pie in the time where our country was almost at war with itself - experiencing a revolution of youth and peace at home, while extreme loss and violence abroad.
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