After screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, the drama Frankie & Alice was given an awards-qualifying run later that year, courtesy of Freestyle Releasing. The distributors hoped that the true story of woman suffering dissociative identity disorder would incur Oscar attention for Halle Berry; while it didn’t earn any Academy Awards, she nabbed a Golden Globe nomination. As would normally be the case, the film would see a release the following year, but… nothing happened.
Now, nearly four years after its initial screening, the recently launched outfit Codeblack Films seemingly picked up the rights and will be giving it an official theatrical release. Following the first trailer, we’ve now got a new one, which reveals more of the story, which also follows Stellan Skarsgård as her therapist and Phylicia Rashad as her mother. Directed by Geoffrey Sax (White Noise), reviews have been middling, but one can check it out below, along with an extensive interview with Berry from 2010, who also serves as a producer.
FRANKIE & ALICE is inspired by the remarkable true story of an African American go-go dancer “Frankie” with multiple personalities (dissociative identity disorder or “DID”) who struggles to remain her true self while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named Genius and a Southern white racist woman named Alice. In order to stop the multiple voices in her head, Frankie (Halle Berry) works together with a psychotherapist (Stellan Skarsgard) to uncover and overcome the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Franke & Alice hits limited release on April 4th.