This is one of the Martin Scorsese-directed movies least associated with the work of Scorsese, but this early work, from 1974, is just as unblinking a character study, in its own way, as such much more violent and male-oriented Scorsese movies as Taxi Driver. In Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Ellen Burstyn stars as a woman whose husband dies suddenly, leaving her to care for her young son by taking a job as a waitress in a small Arizona diner. Such subsequently more familiar Scorsese act