Still Alice

Who it's for

Still Alice follows a linguistics professor whose identity is built on words as early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (the film's own diagnosis) takes them away.

Feelings it meets

• Chronic Illness
• Anxiety
• Caregiving Strain
• Identity
• Mortality

What it is

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's 2014 film, based on Lisa Genova's novel, follows Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a linguistics professor at Columbia University who, around her 50th birthday, begins forgetting words in lectures and becomes lost while jogging. She is diagnosed with early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease.

Where to find it

Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.

Before you start

Heads up: Dementia and a near suicide.

Age: PG-13

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay