Alice’s Restaurant

…Clyde with the kinder, gentler Alice’s Restaurant (1969), the plot of which was based on singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie’s 18-minute-long narrative song. Penn, who cowrote the screenplay, evocatively captured the flavour of that song and the hippie counterculture that it celebrated, earning another Academy Award nomination as best director.

…captured in a film adaptation, Alice’s Restaurant, starring Guthrie and directed by Arthur Penn.