type: 

COMEDY

DRAMA

ROMANCE

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.

name	character
Mia Bendixsen	Alice - Age 8
Lane Bradbury	Rita
Marty Brinton	Lenny
Ellen Burstyn	Alice Wyatt
Billy Green Bush	Donald
Dean Casper	Chicken
Valerie Curtin	Vera
Laura Dern	Girl Eating Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
Jodie Foster	Audrey
Lelia Goldoni	Bea
Harvey Keitel	Ben
Kris Kristofferson	David
Diane Ladd	Flo
Alfred Lutter	Tommy
Ola Moore	Old Woman
Murray Moston	Jacobs
Harry Northup	Joe & Jim's Bartender
Vic Tayback	Mel

name
Robert Getchell	writer (original)
Audrey Maas	producer
Martin Scorsese	director
David Susskind	producer

year	award	category	name
1974	Academy Award	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Ellen Burstyn
1975	BAFTA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Ellen Burstyn
1975	BAFTA	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Diane Ladd
1975	BAFTA	Best Film