GERALDINE PAGE had only a couple of years to live after she made THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, so it's fortunate that the Academy honored her with a Best Actress Oscar for her leading role in this film directed by Peter Masterson.
A lonely widow determined to visit the scene of her youth, Page boards a bus and soon forms a friendship with fellow passenger, REBECCA DeMORNAY, a kind young woman separated from her military husband during wartime. Their relationship forms much of the core of the film's character-driven tale, although the story itself is slowly paced and riveting only because Miss Page is such a consummate actress.
Based on Horton Foote's 1953 TV play, it provides a meaty role for Miss Page as a woman tired of living with her son and daughter-in-law in a cramped household and longing to return to Bountiful, Texas to recapture old times. Once you settle into the story, it provides a warm, nostalgic feeling and is impressively acted by the entire cast.
Well worth viewing, if only for Page's heartbreaking performance.
A lonely widow determined to visit the scene of her youth, Page boards a bus and soon forms a friendship with fellow passenger, REBECCA DeMORNAY, a kind young woman separated from her military husband during wartime. Their relationship forms much of the core of the film's character-driven tale, although the story itself is slowly paced and riveting only because Miss Page is such a consummate actress.
Based on Horton Foote's 1953 TV play, it provides a meaty role for Miss Page as a woman tired of living with her son and daughter-in-law in a cramped household and longing to return to Bountiful, Texas to recapture old times. Once you settle into the story, it provides a warm, nostalgic feeling and is impressively acted by the entire cast.
Well worth viewing, if only for Page's heartbreaking performance.