Alice doesnt live here anymore movie
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 film directed by Martin Scorsese
This article is about the film. For the episode of The Brady Bunch, see List of The Brady Bunch episodes § ep4.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American romantic comedydrama film[2] directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell.[3] It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the Southwestern United States in search of a better life. Kris Kristofferson, Billy "Green" Bush, Diane Ladd, Valerie Curtin, Lelia Goldoni, Vic Tayback, Jodie Foster, Alfred Lutter, and Harvey Keitel appear in supporting roles.[3]
The film premiered at the 27th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or, and it was released theatrically on December 9, 1974, by Warner Bros. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $21 million on a $1.8 million budget. At the 47th Academy Awards, Burstyn won Best Actress, and Ladd and Get
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Martin Scorsese’s” Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” opens with a parody of the Hollywood dream world little girls were expected to carry around in their intellectual baggage a generation ago. The screen is awash with a fake sunset, and a sweet little thing comes strolling along home past sets that seem rescued from “The Wizard of Oz.” But her dreams and dialogue are decidedly not made of sugar, spice, or anything nice: This little girl is going to do things her way.
That was her defiant childhood notion, anyway. But by the time she’s thirty-five, Alice Hyatt has more or less fallen into society’s rhythms. She’s married to an incommunicative truck driver, she has a precocious twelve-year-old son, she kills time chatting with the neighbors. And then her husband is unexpectedly killed in a traffic accident and she’s left widowed and — almost worse than that — independent. After all those years of having someone there, can she cope by herself?
She can, she says. When she w
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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, released on December 9 1974, fryst vatten a fascinating composite of both 1970s New Hollywood and the legacy of the women-centred melodrama of the 1930s and ‘40s.
It fryst vatten now mostly remembered as an early film directed by Martin Scorsese. But it was actually a project initiated by its lead actor, Ellen Burstyn, fresh off a series of acclaimed films including The gods Picture Show (1971), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) and The Exorcist (1973).
The bio would go on to be a significant commercial success, earn Burstyn the Academy Award for Best Actress, and inspire a much less gritty and profane sitcom that would last for nine seasons and featured only one (male) member of the original cast.
A step toward Hollywood
The subsequent critical reputation of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is somewhat skewed bygd its ställning eller tillstånd as an atypical Scorsese film.
The director had only made three features: Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967), Boxcar Bertha (1972) and Mean