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Review
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Fidgety, cinema-verite story of a woman whose husband,
Donald, dies, leaving her with 12-year-old son and loads
of problems. She tries to find herself, moving away from
Phoenix to Tucson, hoping to get to her childhood home of
Monterey. Along the way she meets various interesting
people, of course, and ends up working as a waitress in at
Mel's diner with an assortment of colourful characters.
She also meets David (Kristoferson), an appealing, divorced
man. They don't make them like this anymore: patient,
studious, non-exploitive. There is a real heart-rending
story here, a slice of life so bitter and unexpected that
it makes you bite your lip. Burstyn is terrific. This
movie, oddly enough, became the basis of the television show
"Alice", which, of course, homogenized the most interesting
parts of the movie.
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