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Despite admitting that she was scared of him in her never-ending quest to please him, thirty-five year old housewife and mother Alice Hyatt is devastated when her husband Donald is killed in an on the job traffic accident. With few job skills except that as a singer, Alice, along with her precocious eleven year old son Tommy, decides to move from their current home in Socorro, New Mexico to her home town of Monterrey, California, the only place she has ever felt happy. She plans on getting singing gigs along the way to earn money to get back to Monterrey by the end of the summer and the start of Tommys school year. Alices quest for a job at each stop leaves Tommy often to fend for himself, which may make Tommy even more precocious. His behavior is fostered by Alice, as their relationship is often more as trouble-making friends than mother and son. Alices plans often do not end up as she envisions, especially as she is forced to take a waitressing job at Mel and Rubys Diner in Tucson, Arizona, which entails working with a disparate group, including Mel, the establishments gruff owner/short order cook, and her fellow waitresses, the wisecracking, foul mouthed Flo, and the naive and shy Vera. Alice also falls into old habits, namely relying on men to make her feel fulfilled, specifically the much younger Ben, and farmer David. Those relationships may also provide her with a better perspective on her life and her bad choice of Donald as a husband.
Alice Hyatt (played by Ellen Burstyn) is a 35-year old housewife living in a small town in New Mexico. She has a precocious, cocky 11-year old son Tommy whom she adores and a cold, unsophisticated, demanding husband whom she tolerates. Then her husband dies and Alice and Tommys world is torn apart. Short of money, Alice decides to move back to her hometown of Monterrey, California, and rekindle her singing career. On the way there she and Tommy decide to stop in Phoenix, Arizona, for a few weeks. Alice gets a job singing in a bar and things are looking up. However, Alices terrible taste in men once again puts paid to this progress...
Ellen Burstyn
Alice Hyatt
Kris Kristofferson
David
Mia Bendixsen
Alice - Age 8
Alfred Lutter III
Tommy
Billy Green Bush
Donald
Lelia Goldoni
Bea
Ola Moore
Old Woman
Harry Northup
Joe & Jim's Bartender
Marty Brinton
Lenny
Dean Casper
Chicken
Murray Moston
Jacobs
Harvey Keitel
Ben
Lane Bradbury
Rita
Diane Ladd
Flo
Vic Tayback
Mel
Valerie Curtin
Vera
Jodie Foster
Audrey
David Adams
Diner at Mel & Ruby's
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