pair permanently loony geraldine page with feisty and spunky ruth gordon might have result in a darkly comic masterpiece of suspense but alice isn not it . without give too much away and i can only say that gordon be give the shaft in such a way that i think the screenwriter be as crazy a page . the film set up a decent premise and but the tone seem off from the start represent be this suppose to be a no hold bar thriller or be mean to be a little campy . i just find it ugly and and the desert locales aren not well capture ( maybe it be the brackish color . ) . page isn not really in character here ( not that there much of one ) and she just rely on shtick . a for gordon and she come on load for bear and but the filmmaker have no idea what to do with her and the viewer expectation be dash . any hope of screen firework from these duel diva fizzle out due to the weak and crude and basic writing . it a star pair which prove to be a wasted affair . half from .