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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974

Martin Scorsese

Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd ...

6.6

4,339

Drama. Comedy. Romance Thirty-five year old housewife and mother Alice Hyatt, along with her precocious eleven year old son Tommy, decides to move from their current home in Socorro, New Mexico to her home town of Monterrey, California, the only place she has ever felt happy. She plans on getting singing gigs along the way to earn money to get back to Monterrey by the end of the summer and the start of Tommy's school year. Alice's quest for a job at each stop ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie has been both attacked and defended on feminist grounds, but I think it belongs somewhere outside ideology, maybe in the area of contemporary myth and romance (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Variety	"'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' takes a group of wellcast film players and largely wastes them on a smaller-than-life film"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Scorsese's warm and witty blending of the road movie with the conventions of the women's weepie is a delight"	POS

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