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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616921888
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: FilmDallas Pictures; MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: FilmDallas Pictures; MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FilmDallas Pictures; MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 5257
Studio: FilmDallas Pictures; MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-01
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A 'richly textured' (Leonard Maltin) and triumphant tale of an elderly woman's journey home, The Trip to Bountiful stars Geraldine Page in 'the performance of a lifetime' (Variety) – and a role that won* her an Academy Award®. 'Funny, adventurous, suspenseful…but ultimately uplifting as a demonstration of the human spirit' (Los Angeles Times), The Trip to Bountiful is 'perfect on just about every level' (Boxoffice)! Carrie Watts (Page) is an elderly woman with a weak heart – but of strong determination. Trapped in a tiny apartment under the care of her cowardly son and his shrewish wife, Carrie is determined to escape and return to her girlhood home. Seizing her chance – and her meager Social Security check – Carrie sets out on an unforgettable quest to make peace with her past…and the secrets of her heart that draw her ever homeward.
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Rating:  - Wonderful old movie.
Very pleased with this movie. Stars Academy Award winner Geraldine Page. The special feature is interesting too. Story about how a little old lady outwits her evil daughter-in-law to go home one last time. Very watchable.
Rating: - The type of movie that stirs the soul...
I tried to find some fault with this movie, but I simply couldn't. I tried to pick apart Geraldine Page's performance, but I truly can't.
Why, you may ask, would I want to dislike this movie?
Well, for the mere fact that Whoopi Goldberg gave the performance of her career in `The Color Purple' and Page stole her Oscar. Sure, Goldberg got her Oscar in 1990 (despite Bening being the better supporting actress that year) but I think everyone under the sun knows deep down that that 1985 Best Actress Oscar should have been hers. So, with that on my mind, I sat down to watch and criticize this small little film; but my end feelings on the film are far different from what I expected.
`The Trip to Bountiful' tells the beautifully uplifting story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman living with her son and daughter-in-law. She is miserable, living under the sharp reign of her daughter-in-law Jessie Mae and she desires to see her old home in Bountiful before she dies. Living in the prison her daughter-in-law has created for her is not the way in which she wishes to die. Carrie hatches a plan to flee, hiding her social security check from Jessie Mae's greedy paws and making her way to the train station and heading out towards the place she fondly remembers as home. Along the way she meets up with the tenderly compassionate Thelma and the sympathetic town Sheriff who offers to take her to see her abandoned home.
`The Trip to Bountiful' is as sad as it ... Read More
Rating: - Timeless and poignant
Geraldine Page, and John Heard play off each other as Mother and Son, in this poignant story of an older woman coming to terms with aging and fond memories of years gone by.
And a daughter in law who doesn't appreciate wisdom, and lacks any compassion for the woman who raised the man she is married to.
Its actually a timeless story and as relevant in 2008 as it would have been in 1925, or even the 1800's.
Rating: - emotional journey
Great classic story. About family and the journey going back to where you were born and raised. The anticipation and disappointments. Originally a play, but executed beautifully on screen. The period was so simple and it made you want to be part of the time and place. Each character was so believable. I loved the colors and prints of apparel. The sounds precise with wholesome visuals. If you like dialogue, you will love The Trip to Bountiful.
Rating: - Oscar-winning performance . . .
Written for TV in 1953, this wonderful play by Horton Foote was revived for film in 1985 with Geraldine Page taking the role originated by Lillian Gish. All resemblance to that first production must have ended even before Page's first line, for she gives the role the stamp of her distinctive style - restless and mercurial, shifting through shades and nuance of emotion several times in a single line of dialogue - and often when it's somebody else's line. Understanding her role as that of a tough and difficult woman, not a sweet old lady, Page put a career's worth of stage and film experience into what turned out to be an Oscar-winning performance.
After more than 20 years, however, what also emerges are the fine performances of the other actors in the film, particularly John Heard as her son and Rebecca Demornay as a traveling companion on the bus. Both bring a stillness to the scenes they share with Page, and when Heard finally lets us see some of the anguish inside his character, it tears your heart out. As Foote devotes his loving attention to the lives of ordinary people whose life crises are universal, we see ourselves in the struggles of a Texas family to deal with age, mortality, and the unfairness of life. The DVD includes interviews with several members of the cast, the director, producer, and others. Of particular interest are their recollections of what it was like to work with Page.
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