The Trip to Bountiful
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Movie Reviews of The Trip to Bountiful
Movie Review: THIS TRIP WILL NEVER END FOR ME...
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading many reviews here about "The Trip to Bountiful", I felt compelled to add my two cents worth about the film and its star, Geraldine Page. I own every single Geraldine Page movie ever released; she is my favorite actress of all time! And "The Trip To Bountiful" is my FAVORITE film of all time, as well. Why? Because when you watch this film, it's not like you're watching a movie at all, it's like you are experiencing the heartache of a lifetime, the dreams, the illusions, the sadness and the happiness,truth and also the lies that compose a lifetime. What Geraldine Page does with the main character, Carrie Watts, is nothing short of astonishing. She creates a living breathing woman who has yearned to go home for twenty years after having been cooped up in the city all this time. And her weak son, her loud, rude and hurtful daughter-in-law (Why Carlin Glynn didn't win Best Supporting Actress, or at least earn a nomination for this role is beyond me) and the beautiful, polite, sweet girl portrayed by Rebecca DeMornay...each of these important supporting roles contributes something substantial to the film...however, this is a Geraldine Page film all the way. Her mannerisms, the way she moves, speaks, sings, falls onto a sofa, or into the arms of a sheriff...ANYTHING she does is virtuoso, beyond the measure of good acting...it is sublime and perfect. This movie, so sentimental and charming, is also perfect. I have seen it about 50 times, and I cannot wait until it's out on DVD! I can't believe it's taken this long. But thank you, Powers That Be, for releasing this film on April 12th. I will cherish it always, and I suggest if you have never seen this movie, that you spend a few bucks and own one of the most wonderful movies and acting performances ever committed to celluloid.Movie Review: An American treasure... on an excellent DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
This wonderfully heart-warming movie is finally on DVD. Based on the 50 year old play by Horton Foote, it tells of an elderly woman's quest to return one last time to her childhood home. Knowing her life is coming to a close, she gets on a Greyhound bus heading for a town (Bountiful, Texas) that no longer exists. Chased by her weakling of a son (John Heard) and his shrewish wife (Carlin Glynn), accompanied along the way by a gentle and kindly young lady (the lovely Rebecca De Mornay), who acts almost like her guardian angel, and framed at beginning and end by Cynthia Clawson's rendition of the hymn "Softly and Tenderly", "Trip to Bountiful" is truly an American classic. Geraldine Page deservedly won an Academy Award for this at the end of a long and illustrious career.
MGM has released this on a double-sided DVD with the original 1.85:1 theatrical version (anamorphic) on one side and a fullscreen version (either open-matte or extracted from a super35) on the other. Picture quality is excellent with rich, natural colors and good black levels. There is very little dirt, the picture looks quite immaculate. Sound is the original 2.0 Mono but with excellent fidelity. My only disappointment is that this would have been the perfect opportunity to release a Special 20th Anniversary Edition. But I suppose MGM figured there would be no market for that. Shame. Still, we do have a 22 minute, brand new documentary entitled "Return to Bountiful" and the original theatrical trailer. All in all, no regrets buying this one. A true American treasure.
Movie Review: Utterly Breathtaking!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just read the reviews of Trip to Bountiful and felt like I needed to write my own to add to this great group of intelligent and tasteful Bountiful fans. Today was the first time I'd seen Bountiful in its movie form. I live in Nashville, TN, and a theatre troupe I was involved with here put it on several years ago, and I can say that I had the honorable position of being assistant stage manager and set construction assistant in that great show. What a wonderful play to put to life, even on the small stage. Everyone in the production team and in the audience was moved by it every single performance.
When I was watching the film today, it was so interesting seeing the parallels between the play and film version, and I really felt like the film was respectful to Foote's original vision. What a breathtaking movie! Has anyone seen the earlier made-for-TV version of it? I have not, and I wonder how it compares to this version...
I felt like Bountiful was so reminiscent of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, which is arguably my all-time favorite play/film. Bountiful tapped into those same deep-seated emotions O'Neill was remarkable for affecting, and I felt really drawn into the life and struggles of Carrie Watts. Thank you Geraldine Page for one of the most memorable performances I've ever seen!
Anyway, I just thought I'd chime in with my two cents to some fellow fans. Best wishes, and here's hoping for Bountiful's speedy release on DVD!
Movie Review: When You Just Want to go Home
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been waiting for a long time for this movie to be released as a DVD. What is taking so long?Since this is one of my most favorite movies, I keep the video in a special place until the DVD comes out. And, I believe you need to be a little older to understand the longing and need to "go home" one more time. I have felt this way.
My elderly aunt watched this with me some time ago and she felt such intense anger at the daughter-in-law who could not comprehend anyone's feelings but her own. The more I watched the film over the years, however, I felt a sort of compassion for the daughter-in-law who felt her life's being overshadowed by the emotional needs of her mother-in-law. Yet, the feelings of exhilaration and joy felt by Geraldine Paige's character at finally escaping on the bus to Bountiful were so moving. My favorite part is where the mother-in-law is taken back to her old house by the sheriff, his heart moved by this old woman who just wanted to feel the dirt of home one more time - to derive strength from her family's roots. Just to hear the old red bird and remember the scissortail. Nostalgia is selected memory, and her memories are both happy and pitiful. Yet, her strength to have endured them all is enriching and inspiring.
I wish more movies were made like this today. This is the kind you can share with a grandchild or an elderly aunt. Both will remember it in different ways.
Movie Review: Oscar-winning performance . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Written for TV in 1953, this wonderful play by Horton Foote was revived for film in 1985 with Geraldine Page taking the role originated by Lillian Gish. All resemblance to that first production must have ended even before Page's first line, for she gives the role the stamp of her distinctive style - restless and mercurial, shifting through shades and nuance of emotion several times in a single line of dialogue - and often when it's somebody else's line. Understanding her role as that of a tough and difficult woman, not a sweet old lady, Page put a career's worth of stage and film experience into what turned out to be an Oscar-winning performance.
After more than 20 years, however, what also emerges are the fine performances of the other actors in the film, particularly John Heard as her son and Rebecca Demornay as a traveling companion on the bus. Both bring a stillness to the scenes they share with Page, and when Heard finally lets us see some of the anguish inside his character, it tears your heart out. As Foote devotes his loving attention to the lives of ordinary people whose life crises are universal, we see ourselves in the struggles of a Texas family to deal with age, mortality, and the unfairness of life. The DVD includes interviews with several members of the cast, the director, producer, and others. Of particular interest are their recollections of what it was like to work with Page.