Everyone Loves Alice

Johan, a newspaper correspondent, his wife, Lotta, and their two children, 12-year-old tomboyish Alice and her little brother Pontus, live a comfortable middle-class life that gets shattered when Johan has an affair with a neighbor, single mother Anna. Johan would like to keep the affair quiet, to avoid the messiness and to spare the children, but both Anna and Lotta force him to choose. When Lotta’s last, desperate effort to win him back fails, she forces the issue and Johan moves out. For their children, however, the split is disastrous. Words can be destructive, Alice admits to her therapist, and spite is no way to settle a complicated family situation. But how can she teach the adults this lesson? —hollywoodawards.com