Still Alice

Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor at Columbia University in New York. She celebrates her fiftieth birthday with her husband, John, a doctor, and their three grown children. Alice devotes herself to her classes and to words, which are both her profession and her pride. But one day, in the middle of a lecture, she suddenly can't recall a term she knows perfectly well. Shortly after, during a run across campus, she gets disoriented in a place she should recognize. Alice tries to brush off these lapses, but they keep happening and begin to unsettle her. She, who has devoted her life to language, wonders what is happening to her. Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the film stars Julianne Moore in the lead role.