Still Alice - Clip

On the outside, Alice Howland appears to have an idyllic life. A beautiful family life with a husband  and three older children, and a job that has provided her with such joy over the years. She's a linguistics professor, well respected for her knowledge of the world of language. However, soon she finds herself forgetting even the simplest of words and decides to get checked out by a doctor to see what might be wrong with her. On discovering that she has been diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, she finds herself struggling to deal with the idea of losing out on the rest of her career, being so highly respected in her field. She starts to drift further and further from her own identity, forgetting who she has become with the knowledge that it's only going to get worse.

A harrowing exploration of an illness that has taken hold of so many lives in the world, 'Still Alice' is a drama dealing with life with a debilitating and incurable disease. It has been directed and adapted by filmmaking duo Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland ('The Last of Robin Hood') and is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Lisa Genova. So far, the film has won awards at the Hollywood Film Awards and the Palm Springs International Film Festival. It will be released on January 16th 2015.