The Trip to Bountiful

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The Trip to Bountiful

PG,

1986,

1h 47m,

Drama

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Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page) may be old, but she suffers no shortage of spirit. When her carping daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn) and overprotective son (John Heard) forbid her to travel alone from Houston to her childhood home in Bountiful, she strikes out anyway. Learning that trains no longer stop there, she takes a bus instead and en route meets a young woman (Rebecca De Mornay) with whom she shares both secrets and memories. Little does she know that her family has alerted the police.

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Dolores Barclay

Associated Press

Oct 22, 2018

The cast is marvelously filled out with John Heard as Ludie and Carlin Glynn as Jessie Mae As an ensemble it is as fine a cast as one could want.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3.5/4

The movie surprises us: It's not really about conflict between the generations, but about the impossibility of really understanding that you are even a member of an older generation, that decades have gone by.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

May 21, 2022

3/4

Carrie’s exploits slowly-but-surely possess a far more engrossing and emotional bent than one might’ve initially anticipated.

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Ellie Lucas

From the Front Row

Jun 3, 2019

3/4

Page's performance is so strong that it grounds the film when it threatens to disappear into its own nostalgic haze.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Dec 31, 2006

B-

In this small, sharply observed tale from Horton Foote, the great Geraldine Page plays an elderly widow, who longs to go back to her idyllic small-town roots; shapeless, the film is mostly a showcase for its actors.

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Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Oct 9, 2005

4/5

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George W

Sep 1, 2014

wonderful movie with a great cast, simple and straight forward story

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Peter Masterson

Director

Geraldine Page

Mrs. Carrie Watts

John Heard

Ludie Watts

Rebecca De Mornay

Thelma

Carlin Glynn

Jessie Mae

Richard Bradford

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Synopsis

Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page) may be old, but she suffers no shortage of spirit. When her carping daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn) and overprotective son (John Heard) forbid her to travel alone from Houston to her childhood home in Bountiful, she strikes out anyway. Learning that trains no longer stop there, she takes a bus instead and en route meets a young woman (Rebecca De Mornay) with whom she shares both secrets and memories. Little does she know that her family has alerted the police.

Director: Peter Masterson
Distributor: Island Pictures
Production Co: Bountiful Film Partners
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 24, 1986, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 19, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.0M
Runtime: 1h 47m

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