Carrie watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, ludie, and pretentious daughterinlaw, jessie mae. Released 2014, the trip to bountiful stars cicelytyson, vanessawilliams, blairunderwood, kekepalmer the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 30 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. The trip to bountiful is a touching tale of one womans devotion to her roots. With cicely tyson, vanessa williams, blair underwood, keke palmer. On april 12, 2005, mgm released the trip to bountiful on dvd in region 1 us in both a widescreen and a fullframe format on a twosided disc.
The best moment in this film happens at its close, when carrie watts cicely tyson and her son ludie watts blair underwood have a hearttoheart in the yard of their family homestead. Written by horton foote, the trip to bountiful at torontos alumnae theatre evokes differences between city life and country life and between the needs of the elderly and the younger generation. It was adapted by horton foote from his 1953 play of the same name. This film is on a par with,tender mercies, as what i would call a forgotten gem of modern american cinema. A simple and straightforward tale of a fractious family, and about a woman who just wants to go back and recapture the happiness of her youth one last time in. The trip to bountiful is a 1985 american drama film directed by peter masterson and starring. This is a delicate,moving film that grabs the viewer by the heartstring and won. The image measures 1535 2175 pixels and is 2262 kilobytes large. The trip to bountiful 2014 cast and crew moviefone. So, i must sayi am partial to the original version of the trip to bountiful with the lategreat geraldine pageas well as the entire cast.
The trip to bountiful 2014 stream and watch online. I watched it many years ago now, but the simple tale of an old woman yearning for the past. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of bountiful. Adapted by horton foote from his own television play, a trip to bountiful is set in 1947 houston.
Forced by circumstances to leave her loathsome son john heard and daughterinlaw carlin glynn. The trip to bountiful tv movie 2014 plot summary imdb. One of the scenes that i think is very effective that was not in the tv movie on lifetime is when jessie mae. This was a beautiful story of a mother who truly missed her friends and the town in which she grew up. The trip to bountiful 2014 where to watch it streaming online. High resolution dvd movie cover image for the trip to bountiful 2014. The 1985 film version of horton footes play has stayed with me.
This lifetime version of the trip to bountiful feels appropriate to remind people to go to the theater, to go seek why shows keep being turned into. For the 2014 tv movie, see the trip to bountiful play 2014 television film. Though the horton footes original bountiful was written initially for tv, the main problem with the playturnedmovie, for 21stcentury tv. Redford featuring will thompsons softly and tenderly sung by cynthia clawson. Heartwarming is the word i would use to describe the trip to bountiful. The trip to bountiful tv movie 2014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Watts wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of bountiful. With geraldine page, john heard, carlin glynn, richard bradford. September 12, 2014 this lifetime version of the trip to bountiful feels appropriate to remind people to go to the theater, to go seek why shows keep being turned into films and tv miniseries. Forced by circumstances to live with her loathsome son and daughterinlaw, elderly mrs. Watch the trip to bountiful online full episodes of. The trip to bountiful 2014 michael wilson synopsis. Best movies like the trip to bountiful bestsimilar. Rent the trip to bountiful 2014 starring cicely tyson and vanessa williams on dvd and bluray.
The trip to bountiful 2014 tv movie showing all 1 items. The trip to bountiful is a movie that describes an old woman wanting to visit her beloved hometown of bountiful, texas. Watts is forbidden to travel alone by her overprotective son. The trip to bountiful 2014 cast and crew a determined woman cicely tyson escapes from the clutches of her overprotective son blair underwood to travel to her hometown. The movie is about a stubborn old lady, mother watts. Reviewed in the united kingdom on january 26, 2014.
Elderly widow geraldine page leaves 1947 houston by bus for home. Cicely tyson, blair undewood, vanessa williams and supporting cast did a superb job in this story line. The trip to bountiful 2014 a determined woman cicely tyson escapes from the clutches of her overprotective son blair underwood to travel to her hometown. His last vow masterpiece pbs hartswood west for bbccymru. Watch the trip to bountiful 1985 full movie free online. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of.
Loved this film so much watched it twice i bought it as a treat for myself for christmas just perfect thankyou. As her execution of these two elderly characters simply did not crossover to miss jane pittman. The trip to bountiful dvd, 2014 for sale online ebay. Rent the trip to bountiful 2014 on dvd and bluray dvd. But the heart of the story goes much deeper than that as it expresses one womans unshakable longing for her roots. The role cicely tyson waited 26 years to play oprahs master class oprah winfrey network duration. Despite the film being produced 29 years after the trip to bountiful 1985, cicely tyson was born less than a month after geraldine page, who plays mrs watts in. In 1940s texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time. She was lonely in her new environment and made many attempts to return to bountiful. Having not seen the trip to bountiful since geraldine page won an oscar for it in the 1980s, a first thought is how oddly similar to nebraska it is as well as how unusual it feels. Carrie watts cicely tyson is a widow frustrated with living in houston with her son ludie blair underwood and his wife, jessie mae vanessa williams. The trip to bountiful comes to boston boston magazine.
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