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The Trip to Bountiful Director: Peter Masterson Cast: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/12/2005
  • Original Release: 1985
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 1,899

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Closed Caption; "Return to Bountiful" documentary; Original theatrical trailer

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Side #1 -- Widescreen
1. Main Title/Full Moon [6:19]
2. In-Law Wars [10:21]
3. Downtown Picture Show [3:17]
4. Those Stinkin' Spells [8:07]
5. No Way to Bountiful [3:40]
6. Strangers at a Bus Stop [8:58]
7. A One-Hour Wait [2:24]
8. Hard Not to Worry [5:54]
9. "I Didn't Love Him" [4:56]
10. Dead and Bountiful [8:29]
11. Her First Dance [4:52]
12. Twelve Miles Short [7:47]
13. What's Left of Home [8:48]
14. What Good Remembering [11:41]
15. House Rules [8:58]
16. End Credits [3:04]
Side #2 -- Full Screen
1. Main Title/Full Moon [6:19]
2. In-Law Wars [10:21]
3. Downtown Picture Show [3:17]
4. Those Stinkin' Spells [8:07]
5. No Way to Bountiful [3:40]
6. Strangers at a Bus Stop [8:58]
7. A One-Hour Wait [2:24]
8. Hard Not to Worry [5:54]
9. "I Didn't Love Him" [4:56]
10. Dead and Bountiful [8:29]
11. Her First Dance [4:52]
12. Twelve Miles Short [7:47]
13. What's Left of Home [8:48]
14. What Good Remembering [11:41]
15. House Rules [8:58]
16. End Credits [3:04]

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Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son (John Heard) and daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), elderly Geraldine Page wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Page boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the acquaintance of young Rebecca DeMornay. The two women immediately hit it off, and their trip is a most pleasant one. Eventually, sheriff Richard Bradford, ordered to find Page and bring her back to her family, catches up with the old woman just 12 miles from Bountiful. Feeling sorry for Page, Bradford permits her to complete her sentimental journey, even though he knows full well that Bountiful is now a ghost town of empty ruins and dilapidated shacks. It doesn't matter, though: Page sees Bountiful just as it was when she left it, and for the first time in years she is truly happy and at peace with herself. After several near-misses, Geraldine Page finally won an Academy Award for A Trip to Bountiful (incidentally, the original TV production, which still exists in kinescope form, starred Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint). Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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October 25, 2006: What a magnificient movie. Everyone should see this because we will be in the same place as Geraldine Page if God permits. I love this movie with all my heart.

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January 30, 2005: Geraldine Page deserves the Oscar she finally won in TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL. This is a beautiful film, and well directed -- very easy to empathize with Page seeing the end of her days approaching and wanting to go home... just once, go home before she dies. It is also easy to want to slap some sense into her hen-pecked husband, and even easier to despise her daughter-in-law who each month steals Page's social security check, selfishly spends every penny on her ego-centric self, and then also expects the aging Page to clean their house on a daily basis. Page is fatiqued, physically and spiritually, she needs a journey home, and this is it. At the very beginning of the film the scene of a young mother (Page) chasing her young son (Hurt) through a meadow filled with Texas Bluebonnets while music plays in the background from the Christian hymn 'Softly and Tenderly', sung by Cynthia Clawson, tugs at your heart, letting the viewer know that they too are in for a journey. Fantastic film. And finally in DVD. Don't miss it!