Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by Robert Getchell focuses on the adventures of a thirtysomething widow and her pre-teen son as they journey across the American Southwest to her hometown of Monterey, California, where they hope to find a better life for themselves.
When New Mexico housewife Alice Hyatt's trucker husband Donald is killed in an accident, she decides to have a...
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by Robert Getchell focuses on the adventures of a thirtysomething widow and her pre-teen son as they journey across the American Southwest to her hometown of Monterey, California, where they hope to find a better life for themselves.
When New Mexico housewife Alice Hyatt's trucker husband Donald is killed in an accident, she decides to have a garage sale and pack what's left of her meager belongings and take her precocious son Tommy to Monterey, California, where she hopes to pursue the singing career she abandoned when she married. Their financial situation forces them to take temporary lodgings in Phoenix, Arizona, where she finds work as a lounge singer in a seedy bar. There she meets the considerably younger and seemingly available Ben, who uses his charm to lure her into a sexual relationship that comes to a sudden end when his wife confronts Alice and he mercilessly beats...
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