The Trip to Bountiful
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| Directed by | Peter Masterson |
| Produced by |
Horton Foote Sterling Van Wagenen |
| Screenplay by | Horton Foote |
| Based on |
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote |
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| Music by | J.A.C. Redford |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Edited by | Jay Freund |
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Production
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Bountiful Film Partners
FilmDallas Pictures |
| Distributed by | Island Pictures |
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Running time
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $7,491,903 |
The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 film starring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay. Geraldine Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts. The movie was adapted by Horton Foote from his play of the same name.
The of the title is a fictitious Texas town. Although set in Houston, Texas (as was the original play), the movie was filmed by director Peter Masterson in Dallas.
The film features an all-star cast including John Heard and Geraldine Page and a soundtrack by J.A.C. Redford featuring Will Thompson's "Softly and Tenderly" sung by Grammy-award winner Cynthia Clawson. The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Page) and was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
The film, set in the post-World War II 1940s, tells the story of an elderly woman, Carrie Watts (Page), who wants to return to her home, the small, rural, agriculture-based town of Bountiful near the Texas Gulf coast between Houston and Corpus Christi, where she grew up on the eve of the Great Depression, but she's frequently stopped from leaving Houston, Texas by her daughter-in-law and her overprotective son, who will not let her travel alone. Her son and daughter-in-law both know that the town has long since disappeared, due to the Depression. Long-term out-migration was caused by the draw-down of all the town's able-bodied men to the wartime draft calls and by the demand for industrial workers in the war production plants of the big cities.
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