The Trip to Bountiful | Geraldine Page, John Heard | Horton Foote Remakes a His Classic TV Show

The Trip to Bountiful | Geraldine Page, John Heard | Close to Home

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The Trip to Bountiful

	The Trip to Bountiful Geraldine Page, John Heard FilmDallas Pictures; MGM (Video & DVD), 2005 average customer review:based on 67 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Horton Foote Remakes a His Classic TV Show

This film started out as a television special in 1953. Then it was adapted for the stage. And then finally in 1985 it became a film version.

The film deals with the Watt family. Ludiie (John Heard) is married to Jessie Mae (Carlin Glynn) and they share their one bedroom apartment with his mother Carrie (Geraldine Page). The Watts are just making ends meet. And Jessie Mae treats Mother Watts as a domestic.

Carrie wants to return to her childhood home in Bountiful, Texas. While Jessie Mae is out with her friends getting her hair done and shopping, Carrie escapes to the train station and finds that there is no train to Bountiful. She then goes to the bus station and again, no bus to Bountiful. She take a bus to Harrisburg. On the bus she meets Thelma (Rebecca DeMornay). She is going home to stay with her family while her husband is oversees. Thelma decides to watch over Carrie while she can and they become friends.

When she arrives in Harrison, she finds that her friend Calley Davis died the day before. The sheriff arrives and finds out that she is there and notifies Ludiie. But all Carrie wants to do is see her home. The sheriff decides to take her out to the farm. Eventually, Ludiie arrives to take her home.

This is not a movie about words but emotions. It's the little things that make this film great. Masterson has gathered a perfect cast headed by Geraldine Page (This is her Oscar winning role.) But the surprise is Rebecca DeMornay. She shows that she has than just looks. Unfortunately she is seldom given the chance to show what is capable of. Well if you are lucky, she does get chances on stage.

DVD EXTRA: Return to Bountiful - A 22 minute lookback at the film and its origins with the cast of the 2003 50th Anniversary stage production cast, Carlin Glynn and John Heard from the movie, author Horton Foote and director Peter Masterson

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Close to Home

This movie makes me cry every time I see it because my mother and daddy asked me to take them back to their country homeplace outside Greenville, Texas one last time back in the early 80s. I drove them there and watched tears well up in their eyes as we drove around the area where the old homes used to be and the memories so strong. They're both gone now and I'm so glad I took them back home. The movie will always be closest to my heart for obvious reasons.

Geraldine Page captured the true essence of an innocence and sweetness that no longer exists.

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One of the greatest films ever made.

You will never forget this movie once you've seen it. For the life of me, I cannot understand why it isn't talked about more. This film has something for everyone, and it is a film everyone should see at least once before they die. Get it today -- and buy it, do not rent it -- because this is truly a classic worth owning.

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES. I HAVE SEEN IT MANY TIMES AND ITS A CLASSIC WORTH OWNING TO SHARE WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. MAKES YOU APPRECIATE YOUR LIFE AND THE LITTLE THINGS TO FIND PLEASURE IN.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE.

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only perfection

One of only a handful of perfect movies. Geraldine Page is beguiling and mesmerizing from beginning to end. Her's was genius of the life-changing kind. She was an impeccable film artist, a master actor to awaken us, and make us better. Of all her great films, I think this one the finest. First rate cast - Rebecca DeMornay is moving as hell, and John Heard extra fine as Carrie Watts' son Ludie. Horton Foote crafted a perfect screenplay, intelligent and brave, itself a kind of paean to Page; it holds her sounds, and insights, already in place. Foote deals auspiciously in ribbons of moments actors are blessed to find once in a career. Geraldine Page deserved no less, and she, of course, rose to the occasion. The result is a caution to our complacency, a farewell performance so unaware of itself, and as beautiful as anything you'll ever see on film. Page's repeated traversal of the Baptist hymn 'There is a fountain filled with blood' is one of Bountiful's brilliant grace notes, as her perfect incarnation of Carrie Watts flourishes. Don't miss treasuring this gem. It is American filmmaking at its rarely glimpsed best.

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