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.

• Warner Bros. Pictures
• David Susskind Productions
• Ellen Burstyn
• Alfred Lutter
• Kris Kristofferson
• Harvey Keitel
• Diane Ladd
• Lelia Goldoni
• Billy Green Bush
• Jodie Foster