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Dec 11, 2019 · I then demonstrate how the film depicts such an aporetic encounter with death, and do so, in large part, by focusing on the film’s final scenes, in which Carrie Watts returns to Bountiful, her cherished childhood home, and finds death and decay all around her.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jan 6, 1986 · She aches for a last look at Bountiful, the Texas town of her youth, and though old and ailing, she is determined to make the trip. But spirit alone cannot get Carrie to Bountiful. She needs a ...
239 views. 3 min read. Photo by Craig Schwartz. 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 ...
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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.
