Ah yes, another gritty gangster flick from the one and only Martin Scorsese!!!

my heart!! a beautiful and brutal and hilarious small story about finding the least offensive abusive asshole in a world so full of them that a "smile sweetie" feels like a gift...dunno if scorsese meant this to be a sweet, quiet tragedy and i don't know that he understands women and their romantic motivations, but miraculously he understands motherhood...tommy telling a bad joke so long and nonsensical that it makes alice cry from exhaustion is real as hell...

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Would smash Alice

Not trying to start shit but it is unbelievably obvious who has and hasn’t seen this when they pop off about Scorsese.

Great film about the patterns of abusive relationships and what they can do to a person and how it follows them

Do not fret about diving into a title that may strike you as a melodramatic meditation on domestic abuse (as I presumed prior to viewing). The cast and Scorsese bring so much humor and good will to these downtrodden and lonesome Mother and Son, in the middle of the desert. This movie shows Scorsese developing his camera as a character, with some shots that are mimicked almost precisely in his latter oscar bait films.

It is fun and entertaining!

I think any man who is secure in who he is and his own masculinity what rank is one of their favorite Martin Scorsese movies. Because, you know how well it is very out of the norm of him can make a movie focused on a female character, this still fits the bill entirely for a Scorsese movie. Smaller but nonetheless, it's Scorsese at his peak. It's funny, at times very dramatic and often can switch around on us but it is a very much Scorsese movie. It's got a great cast and shows that Scorsese doesn't need non stop swearing and graphic violence to make a movie great. He can just make one about people.

hmm kinda expected more from this :// liked the opening shame none of that aesthetic carried thru

Me gustaba el Scorsese que se metía en el barro, que tenía suciedad, esas cámaras en mano, que bien están. Sus películas de los 70s nunca fallan.

Call your mom if you can

Real early gem from the maestro, further proving that all his films are worth checking out for their direction. This may be his only film (to my knowledge) centred on a woman's perspective. The woman is Alice, the recently widowed single working class mother who has to navigate a harsh world of chauvinists to survive and provide for her boy. Scorsese works wonders with a great script filled with moments both moving, troubling and hilarious, and the film is fleshed out by many great performances. Ellen Burstyn herself, who provides a foul talking, flawed dreamer is immediately likeable, and the film is strengthened by its range of supporting characters such as Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster, who are always well developed. It's not hard to see that the director was on a path towards greatness, and indeed he was, as Taxi Driver would be his next project.

‪This is my new comfort film! What a sweet little film. Moving and funny with a great performance from Ellen Burstyn. ‬

‪Alice Hyatt is one of the best female protagonist in a film. ‬