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  • 1974
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 1974
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 52 m

Summary A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. Ellen Burstyn won the "Best Actress" Oscar for her performance in this memorable comedy-drama about a widowed mother suddenly forced to take charge of her own life. Director Martin Scorcese guides a wonderfu...

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Written By: Robert Getchell

  • 1974
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 1974
  • PG
  • Warner Bros.
  • 1 h 52 m

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 26 User Ratings
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Summary A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. Ellen Burstyn won the "Best Actress" Oscar for her performance in this memorable comedy-drama about a widowed mother suddenly forced to take charge of her own life. Director Martin Scorcese guides a wonderfu...

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Written By: Robert Getchell

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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100
The movie has been both attacked and defended on feminist grounds, but I think it belongs somewhere outside ideology, maybe in the area of contemporary myth and romance.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
90
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an American comedy of the sort of vitality that dazzles European film critics and we take for granted. It's full of attachments and associations to very particular times and places, even in the various regional accents of its characters. It's beautifully written (by Robert Getchell) and acted, but it's not especially neatly tailored. [29 Jan 1975]
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4% Negative
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80
One of the rare films that genuinely deserve to be called controversial. I think people will really fight about it. It's the story of a woman who has a second chance thrust on her; she knows enough not to make the same mistake again, but she isn't sure of much else. Neither is the movie. Alice is thoroughly enjoyable: funny, absorbing, intelligent even when you don't believe in what's going on--when the issues it raises get all fouled up. [13 Jan 1975, p.74]
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
80
Alternating gritty realism and red‑hued fantasy, this is one of those '70s films that wears well, universal in its heart while picking out specifics which are exactly of their time.
By Kim Newman FULL REVIEW
60
While his actors carry the drama to glittering heights of intensity in outbursts of violence, explosions of temper, gushes of tears, Scorsese is unfortunately putting on a camera show of his own, the handheld pursuit of the image lending an exhausting freneticism to what is melodrama enough on its own. [27 Jan 1975, p.64]
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60
[An] effective but uneven work, which chronicles a woman's search for self.
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50
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore takes a group of wellcast film players and largely wastes them on a smaller-than-life film – one of those ‘little people’ dramas that make one despise little people.
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Production Company Warner Bros.
Release Date Dec 9, 1974
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Alice has a 12-year old kid. She hasn't got a job and she's on her own. How come she has such a good time?
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 4 Wins & 7 Nominations

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