Trivia / Still Alice

• Content Leak: One of the victims of the 2014 Sony Pictures hack.
• Foil: In 2015 Julianne Moore won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a fictional woman who's losing control of her mind to an incurable degenerative disease while Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for playing a real man who's losing control of his body to an incurable degenerative disease.
  • Spear Counterpart: Both are intellectuals grappling with incurable diseases at a relatively young age.
• Reality Subtext: Many have drawn comparisons between Alice's struggle with Alzheimer's and co-director Richard Glatzer's battle with ALS.

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