Written By Horton Foote: Guest Host Jeff Daniels - The Trip To Bountiful (1985)

Trip To Bountiful, The - (Original Trailer)

Geraldine Page won a Best Actress Award as a woman trying to return to her hometown in Horton Foote's The Trip To Bountiful (1985).

Trip To Bountiful, The (1985) -- (Movie Clip) When You Can't Sleep

After a dreamlike opening, we meet John Heard as Ludie and Geraldine Page, in her Academy Award-winning performance as mother Carrie, neither able to sleep, in post-WWII Houston, in The Trip To Bountiful, 1985, directed by Peter Masterson (1934-2018), cousin of the playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote.

Trip To Bountiful, The (1985) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Mean To Pout

In post-WWII Houston, Geraldine Page as frail mother-in-law Carrie, tangling with her manipulative daughter-in-law Jessie Mae (Carlin Glynn), from whom she is in fact hiding her pension check, and suffering a genuine problem brought on by housework, in The Trip To Bountiful, 1985, from the play and screenplay by Horton Foote.

Trip To Bountiful, The (1985) -- (Movie Clip) My People Are All Dead

At a bus station in late 1940’s Houston, Geraldine Page as aging Carrie, who has scraped together money for a bus ticket toward her hometown, which she doesn’t realize is gone, meets Rebecca De Mornay as traveler Thelma, then hides when her son and daughter in law (John Heard, Carlin Glynn) come looking for her, in The Trip To Bountiful, 1985.