The Moment In 'Bountiful' When She Earned Her Oscar
It is not in the script but out of the blue Geraldine Page gives her daughter-in-law from hell a kiss on the cheek. You can see that Carlyn was not expecting it and her stunned reaction is so perfect it stayed in the edit. With that one improvised kiss Ms. Page took the whole film up a notch. We know that she will go back to her miserable apartment and her painful life but there is, in that kiss a chance of redemption, love, peace. She perfectly realized with that kiss Horton Foote's Christian message of redemption through humility and love.
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