Geraldine Page won an Academy Award for this bittersweet tale set in 1947 about an elderly Houston woman in search of happier times. Forced to live with her rotten son Ludie (John Heard) and his wife (Carlin Glynn), Carrie Watts (Page) decides she’s had enough. She boards a bus headed to her hometown, Bountiful, and befriends passenger Thelma (Rebecca De Mornay). But the sheriff catches up to Carrie’s bus just 12 miles from Bountiful.