Halle berry, in her best and most shattering performance since her oscarwinning monsters ball, snagged a golden globe nomination for best actress for this factbased tale of frankie. The psychological drama stars berry as both frankie and alice, a character with multiple personality disorder who struggles against her racist caucasian alter. To qualify for awards season, the film opened in a limited release on december 10, 2010. In this drama, a therapist takes on a new client, a stripper who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. With halle berry, stellan skarsgard, phylicia rashad, chandra wilson. The movie starts in savannah, georgia 1957, where a girl is shown in a car accident. It currently holds a 21% rating on rotten tomatoes, with the consensus. Watch halle berry s breasts scene on aznude for free 1 minute and 5 seconds. Halle berry is racist against herself in frankie and alice. Oz stellan skarsgrd meets frankie s halle berry other personalities, a child genius and a southern white lady.
In her latest film frankie and alice, actress halle berry plays a 70s era gogo dancer with multiple personality disorder one of which is a. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years. Halle berry gives it her all pleading for another oscar but fails miserably in this film based on a true story about a woman suffering from multiple personality. Watch the movie trailer and view the movie poster for frankie and alice below. This movie, with its flashbacks to past sins and traumas, rests squarely on berry, a mesmerizer who makes every moment count. When it comes to halle berry s nudes theres really just. With all the talk recently about famous people transgendering, no one ever thought of a story idea where a lead character has a multiple personality disorder and transfers between a female black housekeeper to a debutante, southern white aristocrat, crossing racial composition. Its not an unfamiliar genre to the bond girl having starred in both gothika and perfect stranger. Berry isnt convincing as either persona it doesnt help that shes playing a character half her age, which means that both end up registering as equally false. Halle berry in this sexy clip can be seen doing some of the exciting and awesome sexy strip dance. You probably dont remember the film itself, though, since you wouldnt have been able to see it. From lionsgate, codeblack films and the executive producers of. Halle berry plays the role of young woman named francine l.
Inspired by a true story, a young woman, struggling with multiple personality disorder, is torn between who she is and a racist alterpersonality that preys on her mind. It turns out these mood swings are a lot more serious and turn out to be s. Berry won the academy award for best actress for her performance in the romantic drama film monsters ball 2001, becoming the only woman of african american descent to have won the award before becoming an actress, berry was a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runnerup in. It got her a golden globe nomination in 2010 and now frankie and alice is finally making it to theatres in the us. Her mother, judith ann hawkins, who is caucasian, has english and german ancestry, and is a retired psychiatric nurse. The clip showed halle berry dancing and showing sexy. One of the womans alternate personalities is a young child and the other, ironically given that the patient is black, is a white racist. Feb 18, 2014 starring halle berry and stellan skarsgard. Its about a troubled black woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. As signaled by the title, frankie and alice focuses on unraveling the different personalities of a woman played by halle berry, one of whom is frankie, another being alice. Filming began in vancouver, british columbia, in november 2008, and ended in january 2009. It is based on a true story about a popular gogo dancerstripper in the 1970s who has dissociative identity disorder.
Enter halle berry and her performance in frankie and alice. Her father, jerome jesse berry, was africanamerican, and worked as a hospital attendant. Frankie and alice trailer a movie directed by geoffrey sax starring halle berry, stellan skarsgard, phylicia rashad, chandra wilson. Apr 21, 2014 frankie and alice and dissociative identity disorder posted on april 21, 2014 by ros johnson several years ago halle berry received a golden globe nomination for a movie barely anyone had seen, frankie and alice, about a gogo dancer frankie with dissociative identity disorder did. Swordfish, monsters ball and introducing dorothy dandridge. Jun 04, 2014 frankie is a gogo dancer struggling with two very different personalities. Jun 23, 2019 halle berry stars as both frankie and alice, two personas embodied by a 1970s stripper with dissociative identity disorder. Filming began in vancouver, british columbia, in november 2008. Operation stormbreaker, white noise, the drama stars halle berry as a. Frankie and alice trailer halle berry 2014 youtube. Thats a contrivance that allows berry to dance in a giant birdcage for lustdrunk, currencyclutching men without having to take her clothes off.
Actress halle berry talks about her new movie, frankie. From lionsgate and codeblack films and the executive producers of. This couldve been a really great movie if it had more ambition or coherence in its plot. Academy award winner halle berry portrays a gogo dancer battling with mental. The movie frankie and alice begins in georgia in 1957, showing a girl in a car accident and stars halle berry as francine murdoch frankie, a lady suffering from studentshare our website is a unique platform where students can share their papers in a matter of giving an example of the work to be done.
Frankie and alice and dissociative identity disorder. Frankie had a history of traumatic events that took place as she was growing up which resulted in her being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Frankie and alice 2014 halle berry movie trailer, cast. Halle berry opens up about new role in her latest film frankie and alice, actress halle berry plays a 70s era gogo dancer with multiple personality disorder one of which is a child and the. Jul 08, 2018 enter halle berry and her performance in frankie and alice. I say that because acting as one personality cant really be that difficult to do since working in hollywood is not really about quality anymore. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. Murdoch frankie with multiple personality disorder. Halle berry won a best actress oscar for falling in love with a racist in monsters ball. Halle gave the kind of quality performance that only shes capable of, in playing a young woman who in real life, suffered from multiple personality disorder and didnt initially know it. Freestyle releasing have released the first movie trailer for frankie and alice. Halle berry things we lost in the fire 2007 15 sec 204. The oscarwinning actress reportedly pulled a janet jackson while filming her latest movie, frankie and alice, in vancouver. A drama centered on a gogo dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
In a new trailer for the film halle berry portrays frankie murdoch, a woman. Frankie is a gogo dancer struggling with two very different personalities. Frankie is a talented dancer who attracts wealthy businessmen and alice is a psychopathic murderer who kills those businessmen. The storyline is wellwritten, with all the plots and mystery youd expect a psych movie to have. Oz stellan skarsgard names genius and an racist white woman named alice. Frankie and alice and dissociative identity disorder posted on april 21, 2014 by ros johnson several years ago halle berry received a golden globe nomination for a movie barely anyone had seen, frankie and alice, about a gogo dancer frankie with dissociative identity disorder did.
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