In this 1969 counterculture classic, Arlo Guthrie plays a guitar-toting drifter who stumbles into a bizarre chain of events starting with Thanksgiving dinner at Alice’s funky, free-spirited restaurant. What starts as a little post-feast garbage dumping leads to an arrest, a courtroom fiasco, and eventually, a hilarious jab at the Vietnam-era draft system. With a blend of folk music, absurd humor, and a tale so strange it has to be mostly true, Alice’s Restaurant captures the spirit of the ‘60s—and proves that sometimes, the best protest is a song (and a little civil disobedience).
