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An elderly woman embarks on a bus trip back to her hometown of Bountiful, Texas, against the wishes of her overprotective son and domineering daughter-in-law.

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Carrie Watts is an active widow living in a cramped apartment with her son and daughter-in-law. Carrie escapes to realize her dearest dream: to return to her beloved hometown, Bountiful.

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Hallie foote, horton foote, eric fraser, david greene, john gromada, jeffrey hayes, van broughton ramsey, charles gregory ross, george roulston, miscellaneous notes.

Aired in United States March 8, 2014

Based on the play, "The Trip to Bountiful," written by Horton Foote and premiering on television (NBC) in 1953.

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Directed by Michael Wilson

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house.

Cicely Tyson Vanessa Williams Blair Underwood Keke Palmer Clancy Brown Arthur French Devon Abner Pat Bowie

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Michael Wilson

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Horton Foote

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David Greene

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Eric Fraser

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Review by claira curtis ★★★

Sweet and endearing. You feel the stage to screen confines of The Trip to Bountiful , but that just means you get to stay zeroed in on Cicely Tyson for longer and who doesn’t want that? Really enjoyed how the film explores those generational tensions, the reflection and homesickness that come in the later years of life, and how the film uses its Jim Crow era setting as a piece of the story without building it into the main focus of the film. I love “grandma cinema”, whatever that means. There is value in stories that center around the oldest members of society!!

Review by Toby ★★★★

Rest In Peace Cicely Tyson, your contributions to this world means you'll never really be gone. I liked this maybe even more than the movie version, all because Cicely brings something different to the role.

Review by Dave Evans ★★★½

The 1985 film version of Horton Foote's play has stayed with me. I watched it many years ago now, but the simple tale of an old woman yearning for the past resonated with me. It's a story that feels old-fashioned in a really delightful way. When I heard about this new TV version, my interest was definitely piqued.

Lifetime's shot at the classic story is probably not as good as the earlier film, but it's really quite fine. Cicely Tyson is good as the protagonist, with the supporting cast turning in adequate performances (with the possible exception of Keke Palmer, who seems a bit out of her depth). The movie is refreshing in today's super-hurried world where television has to…

Review by Adam Waldowski ★★★½

Surprisingly delightful and a slight improvement over Peter Masterson's 1985 version. Cicely Tyson anchors this production with a subdued, poignant performance. Every bit as capable and moving is Blair Underwood, who nails his final monologue. Though she's meant to be a counterbalance, Vanessa Williams's over-the-top turn feels out of place.

Review by tattianA ★★½

Ah wah lick the gal Jessie-Mae in ar neck back

Review by Monae ★★★

Started out Black History Month with Ancestor Cicely. 🖤🤎

I would’ve like to see actual flashback scenes rather than just hearing Mother Watts tell stories about her life, but it was interestingly relieving to watch a movie about Black people set in the Jim Crow era without it being hella traumatizing AND without it being written as if segregation and all didn’t exist.

Review by Chrystel ★★★★

Rewatched this today in honor of Cicely Tyson, this was a role she longed to play for so long. After the news of her passing, I could not shake the memory of her voice asking "Where's my Trip to Bountiful?" Rest in peace dear dear Cicely.

Review by Nick ★

I watched an hour of this in a doctor’s waiting room and it sucked. Plays are bad and no one likes them!

Review by Terence Ang 洪偉凱 ★★★

"When you've lived longer than your house and your family, you've lived too long. Maybe it's just me, maybe the need to belong to a house and a family and a town is gone from the rest of the world."

Review by Derek Bowman ★★★½

Cicely Tyson carries this version of Horton Foote's classic, which is essentially just a filmed version of the stage revival that won her an Emmy. Luckily, this knows exactly what it is--a modest story told modestly and elevated greatly by Tyson's central performance. She's amazing here--delicate, subtle, nostalgic, and willful in her pursuit of a return to Bountiful. She should have won the Emmy (though it's hard to fault Jessica Lange), and costar Blair Underwood should have been nominated. This is a brisk yet deeply rewarding watch even if to just see Tyson at work.

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Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful” is a deceptively small story.

An elderly woman named Carrie Watts, living a stifling and increasingly marginalized existence with her son and daughter-in-law, is determined to return to her tiny hometown in the South. And so one day she does, escaping the bonds of age and family to board a bus headed toward Bountiful, Texas.

There are few roles available to women of a certain age, fewer still that allow such performers to wield the subtle but symphonic skills that can only be acquired through a lifetime of fine acting. Lillian Gish played Carrie in the original 1953 teleplay, Geraldine Page won an Oscar for her portrayal in the 1985 film.

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Last year, Cicely Tyson took Carrie to Broadway and won a Tony. And on Saturday, Tyson and some of the Broadway cast bring “The Trip to Bountiful” back to its own hometown, television. It’s an exquisitely rendered and masterfully acted film on Lifetime, and hand to God, this is one you don’t want to miss.

It’s a two-hour prose poem in which hope emerges from the dank mulch of regret and blooms tough and ecstatic like a brilliant roadside flower. The film opens with Carrie (Tyson) wheeling home groceries in a wagon and then preparing supper for her son Ludie (Blair Underwood) and daughter-in-law Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams).

In a few deft strokes, the characters are established — Carrie, maternal, spiritually rigorous and stubborn; Jessie Mae, impatient, frustrated and dismissive of her mother in law; and Ludie, loving to each but see-sawing between divided loyalties.

And so it goes: Jessie Mae doesn’t like all of Carrie’s hymn-singing and mildly disruptive presences; Ludie, having returned to work after being laid up for two years, is worried about asking for a raise; and Carrie just wants to go home to Bountiful, where she can feel the forces that once rooted her to this planet.

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Since no one wants to take her, Carrie, though frail and plagued with a heart problem, has attempted to go on her own. This “running off” has resulted only in increased annoyance and suspicion on Jessie Mae’s part, until this day.

On this day, Carrie manages to make it to the bus station, where she befriends a young woman named Thelma (Keke Palmer), eludes her pursuing family and boards a bus headed toward Bountiful, now a town so small it doesn’t merit its own bus stop.

Along the way, she speaks to Thelma of her life, an ordinary life of tragedy and triumph, winding down now in a way that doesn’t quite suit her; if she can just get to Bountiful, she can reclaim something she remembers as joy.

Underwood and Williams are eloquent and fine, but this is Carrie’s story. With her shining ageless eyes and effortless physical grace, Tyson is quietly but relentlessly hypnotic in all she does — whether it’s the sprinkling of salt, the fumbling for correct change or an exuberant rendition of “Blessed Assurance.”

This Carrie is quieter than Page’s. She’s more rooted in patience, but no less determined and certainly no less powerful. Tyson’s voice is soft but precise, carrying the cadence of Foote’s lushly simple dialogue forward in a way that undulates, like a field of ripe wheat, all the way to the horizon.

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It remains a simple tale, “The Trip to Bountiful.” Nothing is revealed but the inevitable impact of time, on the land and on our lives.

Memory is not truth, but it is what haunts us and sustains us. It’s a force that can straighten us against the sky or crush us against the earth. In the end, Carrie tells us, the role memory plays is our choice, and perhaps the most important choice we make in this life.

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In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home one last time. In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home one last time. In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home one last time.

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• Trivia Horton Foote , at first, would not allow another film version of his play, because he didn't want anybody to play Carrie except Lillian Gish . He later agreed, but only if either Geraldine Page or Kim Stanley played Carrie.
• Goofs The statement about the location NOT looking like the Montrose neighborhood of Houston is NOT accurate. People who have lived in Houston know the Montrose neighborhood, among others, has houses built on man-made banks to protect property from floods. Although the scene was filmed in the Dallas area, the street and the houses on banks look exactly like Montrose. All of Houston is NOT flat.

Mrs. Carrie Watts : I guess when you've lived longer than your house and your family, then you've lived long enough.

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