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 actors as Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster appear, but pay special note to Diane Ladd as a sassy waitress named Flo (pictured, with Burstyn). The two characters, Alice and Flo, formed the core of a popular CBS sitcom called Alice, based on the film and starring Linda Lavin and Polly Holliday, which premiered in 1976, and ran for nine years.