The Trip to Bountiful

Name: The Trip to Bountiful
Genre: Drama
Released: January 24, 1986
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Carlin Glynn, Dave Tanner, Geraldine Page, Harvey Lewis, John Heard

1986

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Island Pictures | Release Date: January 24, 1986 | PG

Starring: Carlin Glynn, Dave Tanner, Geraldine Page, Harvey Lewis, John Heard, Kevin Cooney, Kirk Sisco, Norman Bennett, Rebecca De Mornay, Richard Bradford

Summary: In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Director: Peter Masterson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 108 min

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100

Vincent Canby

Horton Foote's funny, exquisitely performed film adaptation of his own play, directed for the screen by Peter Masterson. The Trip to Bountiful is almost as unstoppable as Carrie Watts. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

No guns, no violence, no nudity--just a caring story that will wet the driest eye and warm the coldest heart. Every single role is perfectly cast and perfectly played, and Horton Foote's script is a marvel of economy. Read full review

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The Trip to Bountiful is a superbly crafted drama featuring the performance of a lifetime by Geraldine Page. Read full review

Bill Cosford

This lovely movie, impeccably made in nearly every way, has entirely too much right about it to be resisted. [21 Feb 1986, p.D1]

Gene Siskel

It is played out in such a special, gentle way that you will want to anticipate and savor it for yourself. [31 Jan 1986, p.30N]

Staff (Not Credited)

Masterson's images of small-town America are imbued with a luminous and melancholy nostalgia, but otherwise the film is not mounted with any special imagination, and its fusty, old-fashioned (not to say reactionary) lauding of homespun values sticks in the craw. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Foote can't make poetry out of material as laundered and denatured as what he comes up with here. The movie is intended to by a hymn, but all he and Masterson can do is give some of the characters a limp, anesthetized grace.

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DawdlingPoet

Sep 3, 2022

This film features the quote 'if only I could not worry' - this is something I can very, very much relate to, being quite an anxious person. It's about an elderly lady who decides to up sticks and travel back to a place that holds many old memories for her, after she tires of her sonsThis film features the quote 'if only I could not worry' - this is something I can very, very much relate to, being quite an anxious person. It's about an elderly lady who decides to up sticks and travel back to a place that holds many old memories for her, after she tires of her sons partner somewhat nipping at her heels. It's certainly a bit cheesy at times and a little slow for the story to build pace. It has the feel of a TV film about it, a Hallmark channel film (perhaps it was one? not sure). We watch as the lady opens up about her past, her mistakes etc. It's somewhat poignant at times. Not an overly appealing watch overall maybe, as in it isn't a big Hollywood blockbuster type film, the main character is someone it'd be hard not to empathise with and feel sorry for at times certainly - it mainly works well thanks to the decent performance given by Geraldine Page. The film focusses very much on her vulnerability in a social context. For the first half an hour or so of the film I wasn't sure what I thought about it but I was quite keen on it by the end.

Yes, I reckon this is worth looking at if it sounds of interest. It may make you think about how we treat and regard older people perhaps.… Expand

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