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Member Login  [help]  Email:    Password:     remember me Membership  Join for FREE  FAQs  About MatchFlick  Privacy Policy Popular Movies  [more]  Fight Club  Pulp Fiction  Eternal Sunshine Popular People  [more]  Johnny Depp  Tom Hanks  Natalie Portman Member Trends  Horror Club  Reviewer Stats Movie News  Current News  News Archives Message Board  Go To The Forum Columns   [more]  Real Life As Ree...  Mutants On Parad...  Salman Rushdie: ...  Only The Strong ...  COLUMNS ARCHIVES Contests  GUESS THAT SCENE Syndication  RSS FEEDS MatchFlick Member Reviews 1 review / review this flick   Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) From Amazon: Having scored a critical triumph with Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese accepted Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as his first big-studio assignment, proving his versatility and further advancing his promising career. Hot off The Exorcist with her choice of projects at Warner Brothers, Ellen Burstyn sought a hot young talent (Scorsese was recommended by Francis Coppola) to direct Robert Getchell's fine, sensitive screenplay about Alice Wyatt, a newly-widowed 35-year-old lounge singer with a bratty 12-year-old son (Alfred Lutter) and a very uncertain future. Her pursuit of broken dreams lands her a waitressing job in an... Starring:   Ellen Burstyn Kris Kristofferson Diane Ladd Jodie Foster Harvey Keitel Vic Tayback Billy Green Bush Directed By:   Martin Scorsese Written By:   Robert Getchell Member Reviews Add to Favorites A Favorite of... Buy/Rent on DVD Subscribe to MatchFlick Movie Reviews through RSS Read Reviews / Post Review Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Movie Review by AJ (4/14/2006) Oh boy. What a mess. Scorsese's direction is jarring and distracting, and doesn't fit the film at all. While it's true that he sometimes manages to capture Ellen Burstyn's raw emotion, most of the time is just comes across as sloppy and far too simple-minded. There are no layers to Burstyn's title character, and though the... (complete Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore review by AJ)
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