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An Unmarried Woman
Why this pick
Like Alice’s journey, it finds humour, anger and hard-won self-possession in a woman rebuilding a life after a rupture, with an unusually candid, lived-in 1970s texture.
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MOVIE1974 1h 52m USA
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Why this pick
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Gloria
Why this pick
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Smooth Talk
Why this pick
Its intimate, naturalistic focus on a mother and teenage daughter carries the same attention to female longing, family friction and everyday American spaces, though in a more unsettling key.
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Norma Rae
Why this pick
Sally Field’s forceful, funny performance and the film’s grounded working-class world echo Alice’s blend of exhaustion, resilience and gradual discovery of her own voice.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When Socorro, New Mexico, housewife Alice Hyatt's uncaring husband Donald is killed in an auto accident, she decides to have a garage sale, pack what's left of her meager belongings, and take her precocious son Tommy to her childhood hometown of Monterey, California, where she hopes to pursue the singing career she abandoned when she married.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kris Kristofferson
David
Diane Ladd
Flo
Lelia Goldoni
Bea
Billy Green Bush
Donald
Vic Tayback
Mel
Murray Moston
Jacobs
Harry Northup
Joe & Jim's Bartender
Mia Bendixsen
Alice - Age 8