“I know exactly who I am and where I came from,” says Keke Palmer in a new trailer for “Alice.” “I am free.” Based on true events, Krystin Ver Linden’s feature debut sees the “Hustlers” actress playing Alice, an enslaved person who flees the rural Georgia plantation where she’s being held captive. After escaping through the woods, she’s shocked to discover a highway — the year is 1973, and the world is a much different place than she was led to believe. She’s rescued on the roadside by a political activist (Common) who introduces her to the Black liberation movement.
Alice becomes determined to seek revenge against her abuser. “Doing the right thing is never wrong,” she observes.
In an interview with us, Linden described the pic as a story of “freedom and self-belief. One person can create an entire movement. ‘Alice’ highlights the power of defining yourself on your own terms, not the labels put on you by others,” she emphasized. She said that “embracing who you are defined on your own terms is powerful and what you believe in can actually make a difference. It takes one spark to start a fire.”
“Alice” premiered at Sundance this January. You can catch it in theaters starting March 18.
