Alice in the Cities

Philip Winter, a German journalist, has been traveling through the United States trying to write about the country, but the work will not come together, and he decides to go home. At the airport he meets Lisa, a German woman, and her young daughter Alice. When Lisa asks him to look after the girl for a short while, he agrees, but the arrangement stretches on far longer than he expected, and he ends up traveling with Alice instead of on his own.

Wim Wenders directed Alice in the Cities, his first feature, from a screenplay he wrote with Veith von Fürstenberg, and he also produced it. Rüdiger Vogler plays Philip, Yella Rottländer plays Alice, and Lisa Kreuzer plays her mother. The film runs 110 minutes. It is the earliest of the 22 features Wenders has directed, followed the next year by Wrong Move.

Audience reception has been strong: on IMDb it holds 7.8 from around 15,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.7 from a much smaller set of votes. A critics' rating of 7.2 from 19 reviews sits below those audience scores, though all three measures fall in a similar favorable range.