The Trip to Bountiful (1985) on Netflix
Carrie Watts lives in a Houston apartment with her son Ludie and his controlling wife Jessie Mae. She longs to return once more to Bountiful, the Texas town of her youth.
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Plot summary
Carrie Watts is an elderly woman in 1940s Houston, Texas, living with her son Ludie and his controlling wife Jessie Mae. Carrie wants to return to Bountiful, the small farming town near the Texas Gulf coast where she grew up. Ludie and Jessie Mae will not let her travel alone, and they know the town has long since disappeared. Determined to outwit them, Carrie sets out to catch a train, but trains no longer go to Bountiful. She boards a bus headed for a town near her childhood home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film is partly set in Houston, just like the original play, but it was shot in Dallas.
