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The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
6/14
6/14:
So mind-numbingly boring, The Trip to Bountiful is what I call a pain-in-the-ass-viewing.
By the time the film ends, nothing much has been resolved. It's about an old dingbat who wants to take one last look at her
childhood home. At the same time, I'm thinking of how relieved Thelma was by getting the
hell out of dodge after her strange encounter with the loquacious blue-haired hen.
I bet as soon as Thelma got home she would be exclaiming, with wide-open eyes, to her parents, "You won't believe
what the fuck happened to me in Houston." Yeah, even more so is the inexplicable Oscar win for Geraldine Page who plays one
of the worst movie characters I've had the displeasure of watching.
Geraldine Page goes through every trick she can possibly find in her old 40's book on acting and then invents some more. I
struggled to survive every scene with her which is either cringeworthy or embarrassing. In fact, this weak film had to be
made for the Praise Jesus folks.
All in all, if you'll recommend The Trip to Bountiful to me, I'm going to punch you in the face.