Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
A movie for everyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Timing:
1:52 (112 min)
7/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Budget
$1 800 000
Revenue
$21 000 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
David Susskind, Audrey Maas
Operator
Kent L. Wakeford
Composer
Richard LaSalle
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
What's left behind the scenes
- Barbra Streisand was offered the lead role. She declined, as she felt she was too young for the part of Alice, and also did not want to play a failed singer for fear of damaging her musical career.
- The opening scene references Victor Fleming's "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).
- The film was shot in a real restaurant located in Phoenix, Arizona. This restaurant was initially called "Mel's Diner," then "Pat's Diner," and later reverted to its original name.
- One of Laura Dern's earliest film appearances, as the daughter of Diane Ladd. She is a little blonde girl in glasses in the final restaurant scene.
- Alice promises Tommy to send him to Monterey, California for his birthday. Later, they pass by a large supermarket sign that reads "Monterey Village."
- The film's relative success in theaters spawned the television series "Alice" in 1976, which ran for nearly ten years.
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