Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

UPC: 085391912125

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Substance Abuse, Sexual Situations]

Summary: Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband's sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter) and pursue her childhood dream of a singing career. She finds a job as a lounge singer, but after a horrific encounter with an abusive new beau (Harvey Keitel), she flees and winds up taking a waitress job at Mel's Diner, run by gruff cook Mel (Vic Tayback). With her career on hold, Alice soon finds strength and self-worth through her friendship with the other waitresses, saucy Flo (Diane Ladd) and spacy Vera (Valerie Curtin). When sensitive rancher David (Kris Kristofferson) starts courting her, Alice wonders if she wants to abandon her goals for domesticity again. To contrast Alice's dream life with her reality, Scorsese created a stylized opening sequence of Alice as a child reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, Duel in the Sun and Gone With the Wind, before shifting into the present-day atmospheric immediacy of location shooting and scenes built out of improvisations. That opening sequence alone cost over twice as much as Scorsese's debut feature, Who's That Knocking At My Door?. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Supporting Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Supporting Actress – null Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Commetary by director Martin Scorsese, Ellen Burstyn, and Kris Kristofferson
Making-of documentary "Second Chances"
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Format: DVD

Release Date: 08/17/2004

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 112 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1. Credits [1:43]
2. If They Don't Like It... [2:01]
3. Lack of Respect [3:44]
4. With and Without [:39]
5. Tragedy [4:47]
6. Where or When [2:40]
7. Parting Gifts [3:03]
8. On Each Other's Nerves [3:17]
9. Sexy for Phoenix [3:02]
10. No Singer Wanted [4:34]
11. Scotch and Sympathy [2:59]
12. Audition [3:21]
13. I've got a Crush on You [3:36]
14. Ben Eberhart [3:17]
15. Noises in the Night [2:57]
16. Rita Eberhart [3:35]
17. Ben Messes Around [3:05]
18. She Doesn't get It [:30]
19. New Job [3:19]
20. First Day: No Grabass [2:25]
21. A Wet Hellhole [3:03]
22. The Weird Capital [3:06]
23. Where Does He get It? [:43]
24. A Real Good Time [1:33]
25. Someone to Talk to [1:02]
26. Drawing Close [3:01]
27. Her Show-Biz Saga [:34]
28. Birthday Bashing [3:17]
29. Ripple-Rousers [2:20]
30. Embalmed Jailbird [:09]
31. Losing It [4:33]
32. Who's Stopping You? [2:27]
33. End Credits [3:23]

Lucia Bozzola

Although Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore has almost none of Martin Scorsese's thematic characteristics, it draws its charm and energy from the same kind of lifelike, improvisational style common to all his films, especially in scenes between Alice and either Flo or the annoyingly articulate Tommy; star Ellen Burstyn suggested Scorsese to Warner Bros. after Francis Ford Coppola told her to see the not-yet released Mean Streets. She wound up winning the Best Actress Oscar. In its time, the movie was criticized for presenting Alice with too pat a choice between lover and career, and with making the lover too implausibly attractive in the person of Kris Kristofferson. Jodie Foster appears as Tommy's eccentric new friend Audrey. Screenwriter Bob Getchell's characters were adapted for the TV series Alice starring Linda Lavin, Polly Holliday, and Vic Tayback. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Dean Casper  Actor 
Ola Moore  Actor 
Martin Scorsese  Actor 
Harry Northrup  Actor 
Lane Bradbury  Actor 
Henry Max Kendrick  Actor 
Larry Cohen  Actor 
Mardik Martin  Actor 
Mia Bendixsen  Actor 
Vic Tayback  Actor 
Laura Dern  Actor 
Murray Moston  Actor 
Martin Brinton  Actor 
Valerie Curtin  Actor 
Robert Getchell  Screenwriter 
Dick LaSalle  Composer (Music Score) 
Audrey Maas  Producer 
Sandra Weintraub Roland  Producer 
Martin Scorsese  Director 
David Susskind  Producer 
Ellen Burstyn  Actor 
Kris Kristofferson  Actor 
Alfred Lutter  Actor 
Billy Green Bush  Actor 
Diane Ladd  Actor 
Lelia Goldoni  Actor 
Jodie Foster  Actor 
Harvey Keitel  Actor 

Country: USA