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February 07, 2008
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
IMDB: The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Plot Outline:
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets.
While Geraldine Page's performance was definitely deserving of her Oscar, I though the film would have played better as a fictionalized account of the play. As it is, it was more play than screenplay and thus, in my opinion, suffered for it.
Rating: 6
[Viewing Date: 02/06/2008]
Posted by mark at February 7, 2008 07:23 PM
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