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Movies that feel like The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."
If you loved The Trip to Bountiful, the closest films we have are The Whales of August (1987), Ulee's Gold (1997) and Treeless Mountain (2009). All three share The Trip to Bountiful's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Marjoe (1972).
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If The Trip to Bountiful hit the spot, these will too
Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
One thread runs through both: texas
Leans harder into documentary than The Trip to Bountiful does
Both lean on stillness more than on drama
Drama in the same key
Contemporaries, and it shows
Products of the same few years
Both know what they want from drama
Same era, same wavelength
A 1970s answer to the same itch
The drama is handled with the same confidence
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The best-reviewed films that share The Trip to Bountiful’s defining feeling.
