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Frankie & Alice

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A therapist (Stellan Skarsgard) treats a black stripper (Halle Berry) who has multiple personality disorder, including that of an imperious white racist.
Frankie & Alice

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Critics Consensus

Halle Berry gives it her all (and then some), but Frankie & Alice is ultimately too narratively strained and clumsily assembled to do her performance justice.

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Cary Darling Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com 04/04/2014
2/5
Frankie & Alice feels like a film that might have been groundbreaking 40 years ago but has cable-TV movie of the week written all over it in 2014. Go to Full Review David Hiltbrand Philadelphia Inquirer 04/04/2014
2/4
Berry has proven she's willing to take on enormous challenges, and she certainly exceeds her grasp here. Perhaps that's why Frankie & Alice plays more like an elaborate acting workshop than a movie. Go to Full Review Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post 04/03/2014
2/4
While all this channel-switching and inevitable unearthing of psychic demons generates a great awards-season clip, it doesn't necessarily lead to a satisfying drama. Go to Full Review Carla Renata The Curvy Film Critic 07/24/2024
Frankie and Alice is a buffet of character study for Ms. Berry to sink her teeth into, which is exactly what she does with gusto and conviction Go to Full Review John Wirt Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) 04/19/2014
2/4
Modestly engaging, the film is more suited to cable TV and Netflix. Go to Full Review Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue 04/18/2014
... provides Berry with a diva showcase for plenty of over-the-top emotional outbursts and violent tantrums. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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alan g @agenser Sep 6 How did they convince Halle Berry to star in this confusing piece of crap. She can act but no one else can. Waist of her talents. I hope she was well paid for it. See more Kevin C 07/18/2022 Halle Berry stars as a troubled woman who finds herself blacking out and having no memory of how she got to wherever she woke up. She begins seeing a psychiatrist played by Stellan Skarsgard and finds she may be suffering from multiple personalities. This isn't a bad film. Skarsgard is good and Berry is usually better than she is in this one. Here it just comes off as overacting rather than something believable that keeps the viewer engaged. See more andre k 01/17/2022 Halle Berry is a Great Actress!!! See more 09/04/2020 A hefty delivery that justified the story's subjective psychology with Berry's channeling performance, alongside Skarsgard's humane empathetic support of gentle approach, taking it to the fullest but anchored down by illogic shortcomings. (B) See more 08/10/2020 Was it slow. Yes. Was it a little disjointed. Yes. Was it a great story worth getting to the end of. Yes. See more 06/13/2020 Good to see Halle really acting again, after cashing checks on eleventy X-Men movies. However, she can't quite pull off the Beautiful Mind-Psycho-Split thing. Valiant effort, because schizophrenia is serious subject matter. I've seen much worse films. See more Read all reviews
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Geoffrey Sax

Director

Halle Berry

Frankie

Stellan Skarsgård

Oz

Phylicia Rashad

Edna

Chandra Wilson

Maxine

Alex Diakun

Hal

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Movie Info

Synopsis A therapist (Stellan Skarsgard) treats a black stripper (Halle Berry) who has multiple personality disorder, including that of an imperious white racist.
Director
Geoffrey Sax
Producer
Simon DeKaric, Vincent Cirrincione, Halle Berry, Hassain Zaidi, Shawn Williamson
Screenwriter
Cheryl Edwards, Marko King, Mary King, Jonathan Watters, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse
Distributor
Lionsgate Films
Production Co
Access Motion Pictures
Rating
R (Language|Drug Use|Some Sexual Content)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 4, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 26, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$693.2K
Runtime
1h 40m