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Catalog Number

1341

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Primary Distributor (If not listed, select "OTHER")

Embassy Home Entertainment

Year of Release

Release Year

1986

Country

United States

Format Details

VHS | SP | Slipcase

Running Time

108 mins (NTSC)

Audio / Screen / CC

N/A | N/A | N/A

UPC / MSRP

N/A | N/A

Original Title / Year

The Trip to Bountiful (1985)

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Additional Information

From the author of "Tender Mercies" A story of an extraordinary journey to an unforgettable dream.

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 television play. The Trip to Bountiful premiered March 1, 1953 on NBC-TV, directed by Vincent J. Donehue with Lillian Gish, Eileen Heckart and Eva Marie Saint. Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint reprised their roles when Donehue took the play to Broadway later that year for a total of 39 performances. A Broadway revival starring Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Vanessa Williams and Condola Rashad opened in April 2013.

Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son (John Heard) and daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), elderly Geraldine Page wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Page boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the acquaintance of young Rebecca DeMornay. The two women immediately hit it off, and their trip is a most pleasant one. Eventually, sheriff Richard Bradford, ordered to find Page and bring her back to her family, catches up with the old woman just 12 miles from Bountiful. Feeling sorry for Page, Bradford permits her to complete her sentimental journey, even though he knows full well that Bountiful is now a ghost town of empty ruins and dilapidated shacks. It doesn't matter, though: Page sees Bountiful just as it was when she left it, and for the first time in years she is truly happy and at peace with herself. After several near-misses, Geraldine Page finally won an Academy Award for A Trip to Bountiful (incidentally, the original TV production, which still exists in kinescope form, starred Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint.

Release Date: December 20 , 1985 @ the Cinema II, Manhattan

Distrib: Island Alive

Boxoffice: $7,491,903 2013 Adj: $16,756,500