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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

A movie for everyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance.

1974 · 1h 52m · PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Martin Scorsese

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Overview

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.

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As a whole it's a distended bore.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Scorsese's warm and witty blending of the road movie with the conventions of the women's weepie is a delight.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

The movie's filled with brilliantly done individual scenes.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

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.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

Not always successful, but packed with energy and a lively Oscar-winning performance by Burstyn.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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