
Overview
In an attempt to recapture the happiness she knew in the past, an elderly woman journeys back to the small town where she raised her children. Based on Horton Foote's play. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Actress--Geraldine Page.
Awards:
1985 - Academy Awards - Best Actress - Winner
Main Cast & Crew:
Peter Masterson - Director
Geraldine Page
John Heard
Carlin Glynn
Richard Bradford
Rebecca De Mornay
Kevin Cooney
Norman Bennett
Harvey Lewis
Kirk Sisco
Dave Tanner
Details
- Format: DVD
- Run Time: 108
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 738329233358
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG (MPAA)
- Release Date: September 2018

Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
Adapted by Horton Foote, from his play, a widow, living with her son and daughter-in-law in Houston, Texas, leaves unexpectedly to make a pilgrimage to the town of Bountiful, where she was born and raised.
Notes:
Co-produced by Bountiful Film Partners Productions.
Copyright 1985 Bountiful Film Partners.
Reviews:
"...Funny, exquisitely performed....Page has never been in better form, nor in more firm control of that complex, delicate mechanism that makes her one of our finest actesses..." - 12/20/1985 New York Times, p.C10
Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1985" - 12/29/1985 New York Times, p.II,19