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- 1986
- PG
- Island Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 1986
- PG
- Island Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
Summary In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.
Directed By: Peter Masterson
Written By: Horton Foote
- 1986
- PG
- Island Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 1986
- PG
- Island Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
The Trip to Bountiful
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Summary In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.
Directed By: Peter Masterson
Written By: Horton Foote
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
81
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
81
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
No guns, no violence, no nudity--just a caring story that will wet the driest eye and warm the coldest heart. Every single role is perfectly cast and perfectly played, and Horton Foote's script is a marvel of economy.
Horton Foote's funny, exquisitely performed film adaptation of his own play, directed for the screen by Peter Masterson. The Trip to Bountiful is almost as unstoppable as Carrie Watts.
This lovely movie, impeccably made in nearly every way, has entirely too much right about it to be resisted. [21 Feb 1986, p.D1]
The cast is marvelously filled out with John Heard as Ludie and Carlin Glynn as Jessie Mae. As an ensemble, it is as fine a cast as one could want. [6 Jan 1986]
The Trip to Bountiful has a quiet, understated feel for the small towns of its time.
Masterson's images of small-town America are imbued with a luminous and melancholy nostalgia, but otherwise the film is not mounted with any special imagination, and its fusty, old-fashioned (not to say reactionary) lauding of homespun values sticks in the craw.
Foote can't make poetry out of material as laundered and denatured as what he comes up with here. The movie is intended to by a hymn, but all he and Masterson can do is give some of the characters a limp, anesthetized grace.
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Production Company
Bountiful Film Partners,
FilmDallas Pictures
Release Date Jan 24, 1986
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline From the author of "Tender Mercies," a story of an extraordinary journey to an unforgettable dream.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
