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Robert Getchell

Highest Rated: 92% Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Lowest Rated: 29% Stella (1990)

Birthday: Jan 1, 1936

Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Hollywood screenwriter of popular fare whose career -- or at least the production of his work -- seems to have run in spurts. Adept at both original work and adaptations, Robert Getchell saw the production of the very first screenplay he had written, "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" released in 1974 and he earned an Academy Award nomination for his efforts. Heralded at the time as one of the first "women's pictures" since the advent of the feminist revolution, "Alice" starred Ellen Burstyn as a widow who leaves her home with her son to finally pursue her dream of becoming a singer, but, instead, finds some camaraderie working as a waitress in a diner. The film was turned into a long-running TV sitcom starring Linda Lavin in 1976 with Getchell as creator.

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Highest-Rated Movies

92% 81% Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Watchlist 90% 81% Sweet Dreams Watchlist 81% 76% Bound for Glory Watchlist 79% 68% The Client Watchlist 76% 80% This Boy's Life Watchlist 50% 50% Point of No Return Watchlist 50% 72% Mommie Dearest Watchlist 29% 76% Stella Watchlist

Filmography

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The Client 79% 68% 1994 Screenwriter This Boy's Life 76% 80% 1993 Writer Point of No Return 50% 50% 1993 Writer Stella 29% 76% 1990 Screenwriter Sweet Dreams 90% 81% 1985 Screenwriter Mommie Dearest 50% 72% 1981 Writer Bound for Glory 81% 76% 1976 Writer Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 92% 81% 1974 Screenwriter
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