Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the American Southwest in search of a better life, along with Alfred Lutter as her son and Kris Kristofferson as a man they meet along the way. This is Martin Scorsese's fourth film. The film co-stars Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Valerie Curtin, Lelia Goldoni, Lane Bradbury, Vic Tayback, Jodie Foster , and Harvey Keitel. Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for... Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance, and the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film. When Socorro, New Mexico, housewife Alice Hyatt's trucker husband Donald is killed in an accident, she decides to have a garage sale, pack what's left of her meager belongings and take her precocious son Tommy to Monterey, California, where she hopes to pursue the singing career she'd abandoned when she married. Their financial situation forces them to take temporary lodgings in Phoenix, Arizona, where she finds work as a lounge singer in a seedy bar.
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| Release date: | December 9, 1974 |
| Directed by: | Martin Scorsese |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Audrey Maas, David Susskind |
| Editor: | Marcia Lucas |
| Cinematography: | Kent L. Wakefield |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Getchell |
| Estimated budget: | $85,000 |