When her husband is killed in a car crash, Alice (Ellen Burstyn) leaves her home in Socorro, New Mexico and heads west with her son Tommy (Alfred Lutter), determined to return to her home town of Monterey in California and make her own way in life as an independent woman. In order to reach Monterey however, Alice will have to stop off along the way to make enough money for her and Tommy to survive. Using the only talent she has, she plans to take singing gigs wherever possible. They stop in Arizona and Alice ends up having to work as a waitress in a diner while Tommy is largely left to fend for himself as his mum lapses back into old habits, relying on men to give her fulfilment. The cast also includes Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster and Billy Greenbush  plus a cameo by a pre-teen Laura Dern!

"A perfect dazzler, a real knockout of a movie about real people has hit  town. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore celebrates life as it is lived by  countless men and women." - Candice Russell

Miami Herald

"Stands as a remarkable chapter in the Scorsese canon." - Erica Peplin, Vague Visages

"Juggling the moods of Robert Getchell’s script with the brilliance of Godard in his prime, Scorsese flips scenes over to reveal the other side of the coin, then balances them on edge with both sides on view. " - Tom Milne, Sight & Sound