Still Alice
A deeply affecting drama following a Columbia University linguistics professor as she receives and navigates an early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis. The film's emotional intensity -- watching a mind deteriorate in close, unflinching detail -- is its primary challenge for sensitive viewers; conventional content (violence, explicit sex) is negligible.
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Alice experiences her first noticeable memory lapse mid-lecture and later becomes disoriented and lost during a familiar running route on campus -- the scenes that lead to her seeking a diagnosis.
Alice receives her early-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis; she breaks down with her husband shortly after. The hereditary nature of her condition -- each adult child faces 50/50 odds -- is also disclosed here.
The film tracks Alice's accelerating decline through mood swings, increasing inability to care for herself, and loss of language and memory; an incontinence episode is shown.