The tale of a 19-year-old girl and her relationship with a middle-aged couple who introduce her to the world of prostitution, this low-budget indie, shot on digital video, features a compelling performance by Judith Ivey as a warm motherly woman who also happens to be a hooker and a pimp. Modest in scope but sensitively written and acted, "What Alice Found" is the sort of little film for which an award like Sundance's Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth, which it recently won, was invented. Making a compelling big-screen debut is Emily Grace as Alice, who at the film's beginning leaves her New Hampshire home on a road trip to join her friend at a Florida college.

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