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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975)
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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...
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Movie Review by AJ  (4/14/2006) |
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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...
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