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Released nationally for the first time by Lionsgate and Codeblack Films, the movie includes scenes in which Berry juggles two alter egos on top of her earthy character of Frankie: “Genius,” a 7-year-old girl with an IQ of 156, and “Alice,” a virulently racist white woman. While all this channel-switching and inevitable unearthing of psychic demons generates a great awards-season clip, it doesn’t necessarily lead to a satisfying drama.
Berry’s performance, although less campy and histrionic than the trailer makes it look, is still outsize in proportion to the material, which feels slight and insubstantial despite its basis in a true story. That’s probably the result of a script penned by six writers and three story creators, whose committee approach to dialogue produces this excruciatingly unsubtle speech by the psychiatrist (Stellan Skarsgard) who’s treating Frankie:
“I think all of us have to face something we’ve done: mistakes we’ve made, things we’ve allowed to happen, things that would have happened anyway. But I don’t think it’s the blame that’s important. I think it’s the facing of it. If we don’t, there’s no chance ever for us to become whole.”
Though Skarsgard throws all his art-house muscle behind these lines, they still sound as unconvincing as the climax of a made-for-TV melodrama.


★ ★ R. At area theaters. Contains crude language, drug use, brief violence and sensuality.
101 minutes.

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Like an A-student with a plum assignment, "Frankie & Alice" star Halle Berry tears into the part of Francis Murdoch with a performance that says, "I got this one": a loose-cannon stripper suffering from multiple personalities, including one who's a racist, haughty, white Southern belle. The '70s-set film is based on a real psychotherapy case, and Berry's portrayal is pure marquee turn, full of hot jazzy light, if rarely anything penetrating, but it's immensely watchable. Even without the virtuosic vocal switchbacks (there's a scared young girl alter ego too), Berry's florid physicality has a certain silent-melodrama pull.

The film around her, however, is lamentably by-the-numbers, treated like an affliction-of-the-week TV movie by its eight (!) credited writers and directed by Geoffrey Sax as if he knew where commercials should go. (Completed more than five years ago, it's only now seeing a theatrical release.)

 

Frankie is a black woman with dissociative identity disorder, caused by a traumatic incident from her childhood, which she has repressed. She has two alters: Genius, a seven-year-old child; and Alice, a Southern white racist woman, whom Frankie struggles to overcome. With the help of her psychiatrist, Frankie strives to live a life close to normal.

Multiple-personality roles are always difficult to sell to an audience because they have been parodied so often, a problem Halle Berry never quite banishes in “Frankie & Alice,” an earnest drama said to be based on a true story.

Ms. Berry plays Frankie, a go-go dancer who struggles to understand her bursts of odd behavior and frequent blackouts. Stellan Skarsgard is the psychotherapist who begins to suspect dissociative identity disorder and documents the personalities inhabiting Frankie. Yes, this is a serious condition, and yes, Ms. Berry does as well as anyone could with the formulaic script. Yet when she abruptly switches to the voice of a young child or of a white Southern racist — two of the alternate personalities — it’s hard not to flash back to some humorous working of the same territory. (Think of Toni Collette in the Showtime series “United States of Tara.”) It may be that this genre has been forever ruined, or just that it requires a more subtle hand than the one exhibited by Geoffrey Sax, the director here.

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And perhaps that has contributed to this film’s odd history. It was shot back in the last decade and then given a very limited awards-season release in late 2010. (Ms. Berry was nominated for a Golden Globe.) Then it disappeared, until now. In any case, Ms. Berry does a decent job with the role, and the film treats its subject matter respectfully, but the overall package doesn’t rise above ordinariness.

From Lionsgate and Codeblack Films and the executive producers of "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" and "Lackawanna Blues" comes a mind-bending drama starring Academy Award® Winner and Golden Globe® Nominee Halle Berry ("The Call," "Monster's Ball"). "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.

Always at the forefront of women’s issues, from Halle Berry, Academy Award® winner turned film producer, comes a must-see, award-worthy film "Frankie & Alice" - a moving psychological drama inspired by a woman suffering with multiple personality disorder in early 1970s Los Angeles.