Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 · 112 min
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Robert Getchell. Photographed by Kent L. Wakeford. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, Kris Kristofferson, Harvey Keitel.
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.
Critics 92% · audiences 81% · streaming on YouTube (free) · 3 Oscar nominations, 1 won