Truly Dreadful Film

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

While, since L.S.D. is highly illegal and teenagers aren't just getting it these days, it's hard to see this movie as anything but extreme. However, the Sixties and early Seventies, those were the years when peace, love and happiness were all that mattered. The hippie years, when drugs and booze was just available. Alice, age 15, is the girl in this movie who is sort of a shy nerd until she meets a popular girl and gets invited to a party where she accidentally drinks doped soda and joins a group of stoned hippie kids all the time. Soon she's living on the streets doing literally anything to get high again, and this leads her into a dangerous world of sex and abuse until she is finally able to find the courage to call her family and get help.This film is great for nostalgic value alone, and although it seems silly and exaggerated today, L.S.D. was a real problem. It's a drug that causes hallucinations and what appears to be temporary insanity.The soundtrack was amazing, I wish all of it was available on youtube. The acting was pretty good and the movie remained interesting the whole way through. Go Ask Alice was based on a true story and a book as well, Alice is the name given to an anonymous girl who died of an overdose while hooked on drugs. This movie is totally worth watching and very interesting.

When this film first came out I watched it and it scared the crap out of me. There are a few movies in my life that had a real impact on me and this was one of them. I hadn't seen it since then but recently watched it again and thought I didn't understand really why although saying that when I hear the music that was played during it sang by Grace Slick I still get that sinking, sad, depressed feeling that it originally gave me. Is the quality great compared to today's movies? No, I can't say it is and I've seen better telling of this type of story. Is the acting the best? No, again seen better? Is the storyline based on half-truths? Yes it is. Did it do it's job to scare the crap out of me when I was a youngster. Heck yes and I think was a big influence in the fact that now at 48 years old, almost 49, I never touched a drug in my life. So it may not have been the best acting, most truthfully storyline, the best quality but I think in it's way it saved many of us from ever even thinking about starting down the path of drugs.

I was 13 when this film came out. I was in catholic school and the movie was shown one afternoon in religion class. Very powerful and very scary. Unfortunately it didn't scare me enough. Although I was an A-B student, I experimented with drugs in high school and over the years and wound up a full blown addict by the time I was 39. Today I am over 6 years clean. While watching a documentary on illegal drugs on the History Channel, I thought about this movie and how it should be shown in schools across America, even though it came out in 1973. Hollywood and television producers in this country should not be afraid to tackle this topic on a deeper level...drug addiction is alive and well in America and we need to prepare our children with profound and factual information even if it scares them to death. Drug addiction, as with other addictions, can be arrested if caught in time. The sad thing is that, if we continue to turn a blind eye to our borders, to our communities, to our schools and to our children, we'll continue to cultivate generations of addicts and will have no one to blame but ourselves. "Button, button...who's got the button?!" ...It's up to US to decide!

This movie has got to be the worst I have ever seen. I was very excited at first to see how it would be portrayed seeing as the book was just amazing. I was actually going to buy it on Amazon until I found it on youtube and I am so thankful I found it there and didn't spend my money because the movie is just not worth buying in the least. The acting was horrible and there were countless scenes and people left out of the movie. The movie seemed to take no event order and did not follow the book in the least. Half of the time I didn't even know what was going on. It went by way too fast and was way too short. I do not recommend this movie to anyone. However do read the book its shocking, revealing, and simply amazing