Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Tagline:
« Alice has a 12-year old kid. She hasn’t got a job and she’s on her own. How come she has such a good time? »
Actors:
Alice – Age 8
Alice Hyatt
Tommy
Donald
Bea
Rating:
(30’289 votes)
(30’289 votes)
Quotes:
« Mel: Flo, can't you hear me? Where the hell's Vera?
»
« Flo: [slams a bottle of ketchup on a table] SHE WENT TO SHIT AND THE HOGS ATE HER!
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« Flo: Mel, what you doing back there, pulling on your pudding? Or are you giving it a whack with a hammer? I heard the only way you can get it up is to slam it in a door.
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« Mel: I don't want to get too close to you, honey. It will get you all bothered up early in the morning.
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« Flo: I could lay under you, eat fried chicken… and do a crossword puzzle at the same time. That's how much you bother me.
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« Chicken: [31:25] My name is Holliman. Chicken Holliman.
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« Alice: Glad to meet you.
»
« Chicken: Well, now, would you mind turning around for me?
»
« Alice: Turn around for you? Why?
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« Chicken: I want to look at you!
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« Alice: Well, look at my face. I don't sing with my ass.
»
[leaves]
« Chicken: Lenny, what's with this broad?
»
Trailer:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Runtime:112 minutes
Plots:
A recently-widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Despite admitting that she was scared of him in her never-ending quest to please him, 35-year-old homemaker and mother Alice Hyatt is devastated when her husband Donald is killed in an accident. With few job skills except that as a singer, Alice decides to move herself and her precocious 11-year-old son Tommy from their current home in Socorro, New Mexico to her hometown in Monterey, California, the only place she has ever felt happy. She plans to get singing gigs along the way to earn money to get to Monterey by the end of the summer and the start of Tommy’s school year. Alice’s quest for a job at each stop often leaves Tommy to fend for himself. His behavior is fostered by Alice, as their relationship is often more as trouble-making friends than mother and son. Alice’s plans seldom end up as she envisions, especially as she is forced to take a waitressing job at Mel and Ruby’s Diner in Tucson, Arizona, which entails working with a disparate group, including Mel, the establishment’s gruff owner/short-order cook, and her fellow waitresses: wisecracking, foul-mouthed Flo and naive, shy Vera. Alice also falls into old habits, namely relying on men to make her feel fulfilled, specifically the much-younger Ben and farmer David. Those relationships may also provide her with a better perspective on her life and her bad choice of Donald as a husband.
Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn) is a 35-year old homemaker in a small New Mexico town. She has a precocious, cocky 11-year old son Tommy whom she adores and a cold, unsophisticated, demanding husband whom she tolerates. Then her husband dies and Alice and Tommy’s world is torn apart. Short of money, Alice decides to move back to her hometown of Monterey, California and rekindle her singing career. On the way there she and Tommy decide to stop in Phoenix, Arizona, for a few weeks. Alice gets a job singing in a bar and things are looking up. However, Alice’s terrible taste in men once again halts this progress.
