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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

A movie for everyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance.

Rating 7.0 / 10Release December 9, 1974Runtime 112 min

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.

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