For movies about terminally or debilitatingly ill
characters, you could do a lot worse than Still
Alice. Adapted and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland from
the book by Lisa Genova, it’s about a woman diagnosed with and then suffering
the consequences of early onset Alzheimer’s. She’s only fifty, still working as
a university lecturer, giving talks around the world on linguistics and
language development. She’s still physically active as a runner and involved in
her children’s lives. They are at that precarious age in between childhood and
having families of their own, chronologically adults, but still in need of
mother’s care.
