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The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 American road drama film directed by Peter Masterson and starring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay. It was adapted by Horton Foote from his 1953 play. The film features a soundtrack by J.A.C. Redford featuring Will Thompson 's "Softly and Tenderly" sung by Cynthia ...
Synopsis. Houston, April 1947. "Mama" Carrie Watts has lived with her son Ludie and his disagreeable wife Jessie Mae in a small apartment for 15 years. One night they all have trouble sleeping. Jessie Mae nags at Mama persistently, and Mama begs Ludie to let her return home to Bountiful. The next day, Mama takes her latest pension check, packs ...
Callie Davis, Carrie’s “girlhood friend,” was the last person in Bountiful. She was buried hours before Mrs. Watts’s return. At the old house, Carrie feels as if her papa and her mama ...
A sweet play that captures an era that feels so far away, so long gone, Horton Foote’s American masterpiece The Trip to Bountiful is a theatrical treat. Set in the 40s, the gentle story focusses on an elderly woman Mrs. Carrie Watts (Cicely Tyson) who lives in a cramped, two-room tenement apartment in Houston with her son Ludie (Blair Underwood) and daughter-in-law Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams).
Dec 11, 2019 · While previous scholars who have analyzed The Trip to Bountiful have found it to be a story of home, or nature, or family, I bring to light another interpretive approach: The Trip to Bountiful, through its sustained engagement with the very event of death, uses that experience of death to foster a real and tangible shift in one woman’s interactions with the world.
The Trip to Bountiful: Directed by Peter Masterson. With Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford. Carrie Watts is an elderly woman who decides to visit her childhood home in Bountiful one last time.
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Dec 20, 1985 · In ''The Trip to Bountiful,'' Carrie Watts, Ludie and Jessie Mae keep their sanity. They make compromises and continue with their lives. Family loyalties are maintained -though at a certain price.
