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This is the sort of movie that makes you wonder how the producers were able to get the money to make it...

As well, how is Defoe portrayed as a tough-guy? Sure there are some guys who are sinewy and able to handle themselves in a bar-fight. Defoe has never been believable in that role.

Horrible movie, like it was made by rank amateurs over a weekend and no script. Most movies have at least a scene or two worth the time of watching them. This travesty does not even meet that weak criteria.

There is a reason Judge Reinhold never became a lead actor, far too weak and ineffectual, you keep waiting for someone to cue the laugh track.

I ordered this film for viewing, and I found myself drawn in by the characters. Personally while I enjoy C.G. I much prefer a good story-line instead; something this film very much has.

This film was a revelation, especially when I saw that it was directed by a certain Mr. Scorsese! As I read that name in the ending credits, the film took on added meaning as I could then discern that it was in fact Mr. Scorsese's directing I had been enjoying, and why this film entranced me. Though obviously an early work, Mr. Scorsese already possessed the eye for providing the viewer with a fluid character and visual construction.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a very real look into a slice of human life, the perennial questions about Life, Love, and Death. This screenplay is far too intelligent to attempt to give any definitive answers to the questions of Life Love and Death and so it never directly tries, wise enough to know that there are no answers, the Director and screenwriter choose instead to show that every life is at best a meander. Life is a lot and a little, life is random, yet forced by the human will to subsume.

The starkness of the cinematography plays in alliance with the starkness of the lives represented, there is one scene where 2 waitresses are out sitting on some chairs, talking and enjoying some dessert Sun in a rare respite from their harsh lives, and a small wind scares up some dirt, and it swirls past the 2 waitresses which for me acted as a metaphor for how it is that the characters live in a world on the edge of reasonableness. The main character, a strong woman finds herself searching for a life, though not just any life, but the life she wants, life on her terms, perhaps for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised by the actors in this film, some really surprising actors given the value these actors have come to be held, many of them now famous, much as with the director.

One of the best films I have yet seen. (Then again it helps if you have lived a life in strong coincidence with the lives portrayed; and not merely a commentator, a mere critic of film)

This film was my first introduction to Ms. Novak, and yes I admit I was, am, smitten. Ms. Novak brings great depth to her role, a woman seemingly comprised of true grit, this only serving to hide her truths, truth which she never admits to herself.

Love will always be an ever-spring subject, and morality tales their best method to ambitiously telling the nature of human pain and suffering, of which there is much of in this film. The tale of a woman always lost, a woman whose redemption lies solely with the only man that would ever truly Love her.

Love can be a grand thing, though so often, Love disposes of people with nary a backwards glance.