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"A movie for everyone who has ever dreamed of a second chance."
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.
33 Cast Members
Ellen Burstyn
Alice Hyatt
Alfred Lutter
Tommy
Kris Kristofferson
David
Harvey Keitel
Ben Eberhardt
Diane Ladd
Flo
Lelia Goldoni
Bea
Billy Green Bush
Donald Hyatt
Jodie Foster
Audrey
Valerie Curtin
Vera
Vic Tayback
Mel
Murray Moston
Jacobs
Harry Northup
Joe & Jim's Bartender
Lane Bradbury
Rita Eberhardt
Mia Bendixsen
Alice - Age 8
Dean Casper
Chicken
Marty Brinton
Lenny
Ola Moore
Old Woman
Laura Dern
Girl Eating Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
Tami Conner
Mother (uncredited)
David Adams
Diner at Mel & Ruby's (uncredited)
