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**"The Trip to Bountiful "** A made-for-television 📺 remake premiered on March 8, 2014 on the Lifetime network. The film featured 🌟 Cicely Tyson in the lead role as Mrs. Carrie Watts, Vanessa Williams as Jessie Mae, Blair Underwood as Ludie, and Keke Palmer as Thelma. Tyson and Williams also appeared in the 2013 Broadway revival 🎭 prior to this. Blair Underwood and Keke Palmer replaced Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Condola Rashad in the roles of Ludie Watts and Thelma from the Broadway cast. Tyson received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance. **Plot** Carrie Watts (Cicely Tyson,) begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma (Keke Palmer,) a young woman traveling home. When Ludie and Jessie Mae discover she is gone, they call in law enforcement to help, but Mrs. Watts is one step ahead of them and convinces the local sheriff to help her on her journey home to Bountiful. Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood also star in this television adaptation of American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote's Tony nominated play. (2014) #TheTripToBountiful #Film https://youtu.be/mYuRvGe_34U