"Alice" is a 2022 American crime thriller film set in the 1970s, written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden, in her directorial debut. The film stars Keke Palmer, Jonny Lee Miller, Common, Gaius Charles, and Alicia Witt). The movie tells the story of Alice, a slave in the antebellum South who escapes her secluded plantation and runs through a vast forest only to emerge onto a Georgia highway in 1973. She meets Frank, a truck driver who helps her adjust to the truth of the time period, and that she has been misled her whole life. Alice had been enslaved on a 19th-century style plantation in Georgia, owned by Paul Bennet. After reading some books explaining when and how all other plantations ended, and tracking down Rachel, the ex-wife of her "owner", she is able to convince Frank about the plantation).
According to the reviews, the movie is not concerned with African-American viewers sick and tired of slavery scenes and downtrodden narratives. Instead, it’s unwilling to upset white viewers who consider themselves racial allies. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and some of them criticized the movie for its poor execution and lack of character development.