The Trip to Bountiful | 
| Director: Peter Masterson
Actors: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay
Studio: FilmDallas Pictures; MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 5313
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1008150D
UPC: 027616921888
EAN: 0027616921888
ASIN: B00079ZA2W
Theatrical Release Date: January 1986
Release Date: April 12, 2005
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Product Description
In an attempt to recapture the happiness she knew in the past an elderly woman returns to the small town where she raised her children. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 04/12/2005 Starring: Carlin Glynn Geraldine Page Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Pg
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Remembering the past April 6, 2009
Beautiful Lady (California)
It was a good movie which caused you to think about how your life could end up that way. It just made you think about getting older and how as you age you wish some things were as they used to be. As you age, you reflect a lot on the past. You hear of friends who have died etc. Lots of things have changed and loved ones etc. have passed away. It causes great sadness and you realize how short your life is.
I am glad she got to go back and see how things had changed. I am glad that she still had good memories of her past. She could live the rest of her life without regret now because she did get to go back. She would have never been happy otherwise.
This movie really touched my heart because I too look back as I have gotten to be a senior citizen.
One of the best movies of all time March 2, 2009
Larry D. Hayes
This is possibly my favorite movie of all time. I want to be Geraldine Page when I grow up.
The BEST movie EVER: The Trip to Bountiful January 11, 2009
Kaye S. Miller
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this movie SO much,I bought three more of them off Amazon.com and sent them to friends and family. Geraldine Page gave her BEST performance and deserved the Academy Award she won. The music in the movie is BEAUTIFUL,Cynthia Clawson has the MOST beautiful voices,heaven sent. : )
 Wonderful old movie. October 14, 2008
W. Martin (NE WA, USA)
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.
The type of movie that stirs the soul... October 1, 2008
Andrew Ellington (Mulholland Drive)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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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