Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Winstar
• VHS Release Date: March 26, 2004
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1572523603
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,116 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Inspired by Nevil Shute’s bestselling novel, and the internationally acclaimed public TV mini-series of the same name, A Town Like Alice takes sets out to the breathtaking, but unforgiving Outback where aborigines and more recent arrivals struggle to survive against challenges both natural and manmade.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, August 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: A Town Like Alice - A Look at the Real Town from the Highly Acclaimed Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I thought that this video would contain information about the actual town, the people who live there, the interests they have, the isolation they muct experience, what the town looked like. Instead it's focus was primarily on the Aboriginal people and the drought. While this was all important and basic to Alice Springs, I don't think that it should have encompased the entire video--there was nothing about the normal, average people living there, nothing about the town--no tourist stuff in other words. While not, perhaps, meant to be a tourist video, I do think that showing some highlights (surely there must be some) of this unique city might have been shown. I did not need to learn about the aboriginal drinking problems or quite so much about the one major station owner.

20 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a town like alice, August 15, 2000

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"chiefermcalister" (owego, new york United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Town Like Alice - A Look at the Real Town from the Highly Acclaimed Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A Town Like Alice is a film I first viewed on the BBC while living in the UK many years ago. It deeply touched me then; it deeply touches me today!

Compassion, generosity, honesty - all terms that apply to the characters and the plot - a horrendously difficult situation for British women and children forced to march throughout Malaysia by their Japanese captors. Displaced persons, yet nowhere to go; prisoners, yet no one to make a decision about their fate. Ill, weary, separated from their husbands, parents, loved ones!

The twists and turns of fate will both surprise you and, at times, break your heart!

A true reality check!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why no DVD?, December 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: A Town Like Alice - A Look at the Real Town from the Highly Acclaimed Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a brilliant movie that deserves to be captured on DVD, but isn't (sigh). My VHS copy is nearly worn out...