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The Trip to Bountiful,a 1985 American film, was directed by Peter Masterson and starred Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay. It was adapted by Horton Foote from his 1953 play of the same name. The action takes place in 1947.
ReplyDeleteThe film's musical score by J.A.C. Redford features Will Thompson's evocative setting of "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling" sung by Cynthia Clawson.
GERALDINE PAGE won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mrs. Watts, and Horton Foote was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Part of the film is set in Bountiful, a fictitious Texas town near the Gulf of Mexico between Houston and Corpus Christi. Largely deserted because of persistent hard luck, the Depression, and the pressures on young men and women to go to war and take factory jobs to manufacture war materiel.
Mrs. Watt's friend, Miss Davis, whom she had hoped to live with on her long-awaited return home has just died two or three days before Mrs. Watts could finally get back to the place she had loved so well.
The few buildings left are decaying and forlorn, but the land, itself, has retained its beauty –– beauty that stirs the feelings almost to the point of pain, because no one is left there to live with it, work with it, benefit from it, and appreciate it.
It still means the world to Mrs. Watts, even though she realizes it would be impossible for her to live there anymore.
Just having been able to see it again, and sit once more on the porch of the old wood house where she was born and raised is enought to sustain her for the rest of her life.