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Frankie and Alice: movie review

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Halle Berry gives a gutsy performance as Frankie Murdoch in 'Frankie and Alice,' the story of a stripper with multiple personality disorder.

By Peter Rainer Film critic

Feb. 18, 2011, 7:06 p.m. ET

Halle Berry gave a full-bore performance in her Oscar-winning 鈥淢onster鈥檚 Ball鈥� and hasn鈥檛 attempted anything similar until her latest film, the fact-based 鈥�Frankie and Alice,鈥� where she plays Frankie Murdoch, a 1970s stripper with multiple personality disorder.

These kinds of roles are often award-winning tours de force for actresses 鈥� as in Joanne Woodward鈥檚鈥淭hree Faces of Eve鈥� or Sally Fields鈥檚鈥淪ybil鈥� 鈥� but they risk running amok. Berry is a gifted actress but the personality shifts in 鈥淔rankie and Alice,鈥� especially between a scared girl nicknamed Genius and a white racist lady named Alice, have a stuntlike quality.

It鈥檚 not just Frankie who is putting on a show here. Berry is also overemphatically showing off her chops. As the doctor who uses hypnotism to make some sense out of Frankie鈥檚 disorder, Stellan Skarsgard is as low-key as Berry is high-pitched. Grade: C+ (Rated R for some sexual content, language and drug use.)

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