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The Trip to Bountiful received a very positive response from film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score of 100% from 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. Geraldine Page received particular praise for her performance as Mrs. Watts. Variety called the film "a superbly crafted drama featuring the performance of a lifetime by ...
Overview. The Trip to Bountiful opens in the Houston apartment of the Wattses: Ludie, his wife Jessie Mae, and Mrs. Watts, Ludie’s mother. The play tells the story of Mrs. Watts, an elderly ...
The Play. The Trip to Bountiful opens in a neat and sparsely furnished three-room apartment in Houston, where Ludie Watts and his wife, Jessie Mae, are lying in their bed. Ludie quietly moves into ...
The movie improves once Mrs. Watts hits the road, meeting on the bus and befriending a younger energetic woman, Thelma (nicely played by Rebecca De Mornay). Under the inept direction pf Peter Masterson (better known as stage director and the father of actress Mary Stewart Masterson), the movie is shapeless, and there is not much to look at other than a group of talented actors acting their ...
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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- Drama
- Peter Masterson
- 1986-01-24
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 ...
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The Trip to Bountiful, an old woman, Mrs. Carrie Watts, is de termined to visit the place where she grew up near Bountiful, Texas. Her indifferent son and daughter-in-law repeatedly pre vent her going there, claiming that she is not well enough to make the trip. But Mrs. Watts finally escapes on a bus. Then,
