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Alice's Birthday

Name: Alice's Birthday
Director: Sergey Seregin
Released: 2009
Duration: 90 min

Representation Score

5.4/10

Fair

2009

Director

Sergey Seregin

Runtime

90 minutes

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Alice's Birthday succeeds as a piece of speculative inclusion by centering a young female protagonist in a high-stakes scientific mission. The film moves away from traditional human demographics, instead using a diverse cast of aliens to model a pluralistic and cooperative society. While the film lacks explicit LGBTQ+ representation or depictions of disability, it effectively challenges gender hierarchies. The focus on scientific curiosity and cross-species interaction provides a progressive, albeit cosmic, approach to identity and cooperation.

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Category Breakdown

Does Alice's Birthday have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The story centers on a platonic friendship between a human child and an alien. There are no explicit depictions of same-sex relationships or non-cisgender identities.

How does Alice's Birthday portray gender?

Fair

Alice is a strong female lead who drives the plot through scientific problem-solving. She avoids the damsel in distress cliché by using time-travel technology to save a planet.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Alice's Birthday?

Good

The film uses extraterrestrial life forms to explore themes of otherness and cooperation. This species-based diversity allows the narrative to bypass traditional human racial hierarchies through a cosmic lens.

How does Alice's Birthday represent religion and culture?

Good

The narrative prioritizes a secular, scientific worldview centered on technological intervention. It explores themes of systemic loss and historical negligence rather than religious or traditionalist frameworks.

Does Alice's Birthday include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no discernible depictions of physical, sensory, or neurodivergent disabilities within the available narrative details.

Present on Screen

Alice provides a strong model of female leadership and scientific inquiry.
Extraterrestrial characters allow for an exploration of 'otherness' without human racial bias.
The narrative promotes a worldview of cooperation and pluralism through interspecies friendship.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-cisgender characters.
There is no visible representation of physical or neurodivergent disabilities.
The narrative follows a traditional framework common to family science fiction.

Official Synopsis

Adapted from a novel from sci-fi series by Kyr Bulychev about a little girl Alice. It's Alice's birthday and as a present she is invited by an old alien friend archaeologist Gromozeka to join him on an expedition to an alien planet Coleida which population was destroyed by a space plague a hundred years ago. Arriving at the planet they decide that Alice, using a time-traveling device, will go back in time to the day when the plague was brought in by their space expedition to try and save the planet from destruction by spraying the astronauts with a vaccine. To achieve that, she and another alien scientist professor Rrrr, who looks just like a cat, must make a long and perilous journey to the planet's spaceport.

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