It seems appropriate that the movie about early onset Alzheimers would finally get to town the weekend before we leave on the big trip so I could see it with emJay. Not sure where it has been  for the last several weeks.

As Dave Letterman says on the Late Show  when introducing a guest and their movie,  ‘ . . . see Joe Blows movie opening this Friday in select cities, and I hope for God’s sake you live in a selected city.” Well  . . . we evidently don’t because it has been playing around the country for weeks and is now finally listed as ‘Playing Everywhere’! But  . . .  I digress.

Still Alice is a  movie based a  bestselling novel of the same name, about a 50 year old college professor who is diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s.

Doctors do not understand why most cases of early onset Alzheimer’s appear at such a young age. But in a few hundred families worldwide, scientists have pinpointed several rare genes that directly cause Alzheimer’s. People who inherit these rare genes tend to develop symptoms in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

When Alzheimer’s disease is caused by deterministic genes, it is called “familial Alzheimer’s disease,” and many family members in multiple generations are affected. In the United States, it is estimated that approximately 200,000 people have early onset.

It was quite a movie. Although emJay’s mother was much, much older when she developed the disease there were many parallels between in the movie with her real life experiences.

I’d  say it is a must see . . . and would be interested in your opinion of the movie..