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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
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"Recently, I was having a discussion with my mother about The Stepford Wives (original). I saw the film as being dull (not a good thing in a thriller) and completely stupid. My mother shot back "the film is about how women felt about the onrush of suburban life". I still think there's a better way of telling those fears without the use of robots, but that's just me. With that said, I realized that I needed to recommend another film to her that talked about real women trying to escape the binds of a domestic nightmare. That film is Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.Alice (Ellen Burstyn) is a woman who has always had big dreams, but let them go when she got married and had a child. When her husband dies, she's left trying to pick up the pieces and start to make something of herself. She moves out of town with her son Tommy (Alfred Lutter), trying to make her way back to her hometown of Monterey, California. But lack of funds lands her in N ... "
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"I watched Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore again the other night. It has that feeling of being heavily influenced by a studio system, although I'm not sure what the story is on the making of this particular film. It's full of manufactured cute moments and mom/son banter. It made me wonder what it will be like to watch a Meg Ryan flick like French Kiss twenty years from now. It probably won't be all that entertaining. However, Scorsese's subtext really starts to take over the second half of the picture and my wondering about Meg Ryan shifted to wondering about my own priorities in life. Alice is a single mom realizing she's never actually put into words what it is she really wants in life. And, like most single moms, so much of her life is spent keeping her head above water and going after what she wants seems like a luxury reserved for other women.By the time Kris Kristofferson's character is in the story, the characters are really rounding out and I was caught. What Kristofferson's ... "
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