The Trip to Bountiful
Island Pictures | Release Date: January 24, 1986 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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60
Time OutStaff (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
60
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
First-timer Peter Masterson directed; his notion of film is to point the camera in the general direction of the actors. Read full review
50
The New YorkerPauline 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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