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Title: Ellen Burstyn's best picture
Review: The movie on which all the TV shows were based, this is Ellen Burstyn's hard core, smart mouthing film about a woman whose husband dies, and she takes her son and goes in search of her dream of being a singer. Along the road of life, she encounters some fascinating people. The person who stands out the most is Harvey Keitel, who plays a mean, nasty husband who woos Burstyn and stirs her passions until his pregnant wife shows up. He kicks her out the door of Ellen's motel room while trashing the place, scaring the bejezus out of Ellen and her son. She moves on.Playing the piano and singing in lounges for meager pay, she meets Kris Kristofferson and falls in love. At this point, the only job she can get is as a waitress, where she meets a fellow waitress with a mouth worse than Ellen's. The restaurant scenes are hilarious, and the basis for the TV shows. It's one of those not to be missed films, filled with wisdom and cynicism.
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