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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

PG | | Drama, Romance | 30 May 1975 (France)
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A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mia Bendixsen ...
Alice - Age 8
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Tommy (as Alfred Lutter)
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Donald
Lelia Goldoni ...
Bea
Ola Moore ...
Old Woman
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Joe & Jim's Bartender
Marty Brinton ...
Lenny (as Martin Brinton)
Dean Casper ...
Chicken
Murray Moston ...
Jacobs
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Ben
Lane Bradbury ...
Rita
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Flo
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Mel
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Despite admitting that she was scared of him in her never-ending quest to please him, thirty-five year old housewife and mother Alice Hyatt is devastated when her husband Donald is killed in an on the job traffic accident. With few job skills except that as a singer, Alice, 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 leaves Tommy often to fend for himself, which may make Tommy even more precocious. His behavior is fostered by Alice, as their relationship is often more as trouble-making friends than mother and son. Alice's plans often do not end up as she envisions, especially as she is forced to take a waitressing job at Mel and Ruby's Diner in ... Written by Huggo

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A picture for anyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance!

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Drama | Romance

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30 May 1975 (France)  »

Also Known As:

Alicia ya no vive aquí  »

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$1,800,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

Martin Scorsese felt that Ben, needed to be the "most accurately delineated" character in the movie. He said he and Harvey Keitel worked together to make Ben both funnier and crazier. See more »

Goofs

Opening scene, supposedly Socorro, New Mexico, shows palm trees, eucalyptus, and an orange tree - much too cold a climate for these. See more »

Quotes

David: So who's stoppin' ya?... Pack yer bags; I'll take you to Monterey... I don't give a damn about that ranch.
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introducing Alfred Lutter as Tommy See more »

Connections

Referenced in Gilmore Girls: The UnGraduate (2005) See more »

Soundtracks

Where or When
(1937)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Performed by Ellen Burstyn (uncredited)
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Landmark from the 70's
18 July 2000 | by See all my reviews

I loved this movie when I saw it in its initial release - after "The Exorcist", I thought Ellen Burstyn ruled the world. This movie is still good today, has many interesting and funny characters. There are touches that suggest director Martin Scorsese was still getting familiar with actors and camera movement - when Alice cries at an audition in a bar, and goes to another bar because they have a piano..its Marty all the way. Harvey Keitel & Jodie Foster are in the movie in small parts; maybe they were having their own audition - for "Taxi Driver". Diane Ladd is very funny as filthy-mouthed Flo, but Ellen Burstyn is fantastic in the part that won her an Oscar against some pretty stiff competition - Faye Dunaway in "Chinatown" among them - and she holds the movie together.


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