The moral of this story is, parents aren't responsible for raising their children. So when their daughter Alice turns to drugs it's everyone else's fault and everyone else's responsibility to get Alice off of drugs.
Alice is a typical teenage girl. Oh who the hell are they fooling? Alice isn't a typical girl! She's a blonde Hollywood actress! But as usual the film expects us to believe she's fat, shy, and ignored by boys! Yeah right.
Alice literally turns into a hardcore drug user over night. Pot, LSD, heroin, all overnight! Just like all bad parents they claim not to know. Every time I heard a parent say this during a school lecture I wanted to scream. How could they not know their child was a junkie? It was obvious to me their child was a junkie. If I see someone at work with bloodshot eyes, slurring their words, and barely staying conscious I ask them if they have the flu and need to go home.
How do parents not notice these things. The reality is they do, they just don't care enough to do anything about it and then expect everyone else to pity them because they let their teen die of a drug overdose.
Alice gets into really serious trouble as she sells her body for drugs and then runs away. Soon she and her friend are being imprisoned and raped by child molesters. This scene is one of the creepiest in film history! Fortunately Andy Griffith steps in to save the day. No kidding! Alice shows up at a homeless shelter run by Andy Griffith! Sheriff Taylor gets Alice off the streets and back to her parents. Her parents whom muck up Alice all over again! They send her bad to the same bad school and send her back to the same junkie friends and are then shocked, shocked to find Alice dead of drug overdose. Just imagine how shocked they'll be to find gambling in Casablanca.
In summery there are some good scenes here but the only moral message comes from Alice's mother at the end explaining how this was a true story based on Alice's diary. So the parents take no responsibility for raising their daughter?
Alice is a typical teenage girl. Oh who the hell are they fooling? Alice isn't a typical girl! She's a blonde Hollywood actress! But as usual the film expects us to believe she's fat, shy, and ignored by boys! Yeah right.
Alice literally turns into a hardcore drug user over night. Pot, LSD, heroin, all overnight! Just like all bad parents they claim not to know. Every time I heard a parent say this during a school lecture I wanted to scream. How could they not know their child was a junkie? It was obvious to me their child was a junkie. If I see someone at work with bloodshot eyes, slurring their words, and barely staying conscious I ask them if they have the flu and need to go home.
How do parents not notice these things. The reality is they do, they just don't care enough to do anything about it and then expect everyone else to pity them because they let their teen die of a drug overdose.
Alice gets into really serious trouble as she sells her body for drugs and then runs away. Soon she and her friend are being imprisoned and raped by child molesters. This scene is one of the creepiest in film history! Fortunately Andy Griffith steps in to save the day. No kidding! Alice shows up at a homeless shelter run by Andy Griffith! Sheriff Taylor gets Alice off the streets and back to her parents. Her parents whom muck up Alice all over again! They send her bad to the same bad school and send her back to the same junkie friends and are then shocked, shocked to find Alice dead of drug overdose. Just imagine how shocked they'll be to find gambling in Casablanca.
In summery there are some good scenes here but the only moral message comes from Alice's mother at the end explaining how this was a true story based on Alice's diary. So the parents take no responsibility for raising their daughter?