The Trip to Bountiful | Geraldine Page, John Heard | The type of movie that stirs the soul...

The Trip to Bountiful | Geraldine Page, John Heard | A Trip to Bountiful

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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 66 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.System Requirements: Running Time 108 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 027616921888 Manufacturer No: 1008150

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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 is inspiring and it will leave you speechless by the films end. This is the story of a woman who has been reduced to living a life she wouldn't wish on anyone, and the very thought of just seeing a place that brings her fond memories is enough to make her feel like a kid again, happy and care-free. This woman's emotional journey is brought to life by Geraldine Page's fantastic performance (she is still second fiddle to Whoopi). She really gathers behind this woman's every solitary emotion and fleshes it out before our very eyes. She loves her son, and in a way she even loves her daughter-in-law, but she can't live the life they have set for her. She can't take the fighting and the worrying and the constant feeling of fear in her own home.

Page is supported by a nice cast of supporting actors, most notably John Heard who plays her son Ludie. He does such a phenomenal job, especially in his final scene, of exposing the hard position he has been forced to reside in; pitted against his wife's demands and his mother's broken memories. Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay and Kevin Cooney all deliver nice performances that elevate the films core.

At the heart of this film there is a story about a woman journeying home. Her home is different than she remembers. The town is all but deserted; her friends are all passed and her home is barren, but that home is everything to her. Her heart swells with joy at the prospect of just spending an hour within its rotten shell. She desires nothing more than to have it become a part of her, for it represents everything she feels she has given up; everything she feels has been taken away from her. `The Trip to Bountiful' is a beautifully sincere, soft and delicate film that will reach your heart and tug those strings and will quite possibly choke out a few tears.

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A Trip to Bountiful

I purchased this DVD for a friend who was looking for it for her husband as a gift. I will give it to them soon and I know it will be much appreciated.

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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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.

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.

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