Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
1974, PG, 113 min.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Vic Tayback.

Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar for her portral of a single mother and singer who winds up waiting tables at a diner in Arizona. Scorsese’s fourth feature proved the Mean Streets auteur had range, and the character lived on for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom Alice.

This article appears in February 21 • 2003.

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