Alice’s Restaurant was a movie?
Several months back, this movie passed by my sight — aired on — like — AMC 3 or something like that. Some things about it bugged me.
It is an adaptation of the song, the Vietnam era protest song turned Thanksgiving – themed song … aired on classic rock radio at noon. And that’s what bugs me. It plods on. With that theme. Plods on. Following the story of the song. With precision — the narration is the song, the narration precedes the action to a tee without any deviation. That’s what the movie is.
Never mind that it is a period piece, and does not jive with any current-day sensibilities — aged rather strangely — I just don’t understand what the point was. But it wasn’t a box office smash at the time; the song has been picked up on as a pop cultural artifact and the movie has been allowed to float and fade into oblivion.
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Other Thanksgiving tradition: Iron Maiden.  Sing it and mock it.  (Though, to be honest, I just mumble badly “White Man Came! Took our land!”, and let it go at that.)