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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) by Robert Getchell is a Romantic Drama about a recently widowed and bullied housewife Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), who leaves New Mexico in a station wagon with her spoiled and mouthy, twelve-year-old son, Tommy (Alfred Lutter III), to start life anew in Monterey, California, her childhood home.
Most women in Alice’s position probably wouldn’t run into a convenient, understanding, and eligible young farmer, but then a lot of the things in the film don’t work as pure logic. There’s a little myth to them, while Scorsese sneaks up on his main theme. The movie’s filled with brilliantly done individual scenes.
Dec 30, 2011 · Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. March 24, 2009. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) was a film that spoke to the generation of women who were trying to find their own place in the world in the midst of the "Sexual Revolution." The story was of a wife and mother whose marriage and life has fallen into a rut.
Alice Hyatt (played by Ellen Burstyn, who won an Oscar for her performance) is a widowed mother trying to start a singing career while raising a growing son ...
The New York Times. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an American comedy of the sort of vitality that dazzles European film critics and we take for granted. It's full of attachments and associations to very particular times and places, even in the various regional accents of its characters. It's beautifully written (by Robert Getchell) and ...
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the Southwestern United States in search of a better life.
