Bonneville (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 29, 2021
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Lange, Joan Allen & Kathy Bates | |
Performer: | Christine Baranski, Victor Rasuk, Tom Amandes, Tom Wopat & Tom Skerritt | |
Directed by | Christopher Rowley | |
Screenwriting by | Daniel D. Davis | |
Composition by | Jeff Cardoni | |
Story by | Daniel D. Davis & Christopher Rowley | |
Produced by | Robert May, John Kilker & Robert May | |
Director of Photography: | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Bonneville is scarcely original and in no way earthshaking, but its notable cast is a pleasure to behold.
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Los Angeles Times
While the premise of this roadtrip come buddy movie may be based on loss, the journey we take is a vibrant one
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 2.5/5 --
For a film about discovering your own journey, it sure sticks to the main roads.
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The Australian
The story just doesn't do enough to pull the heartstrings.
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MovieTime, ABC Radio National
It's depressing to see a deluxe cast wasted on such by-the-numbers material.
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Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
Thank heavens for the practical presence and humour of Bates, and the quiet conservatism of Allen's performance as a pious woman scared of too much freedom.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Bonneville gets by - barely - on the strength of its three leading ladies.
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Donne Tempo
Product Description:
Writer-director Christopher N Rowley makes a strong directorial debut with BONNEVILLE, a different kind of road movie. After her adventurer husband, Joe, suddenly dies while they are in Borneo, a lonely and scared Arvilla Holden (Jessica Lange) returns home to Pocatello, Idaho, where her husband's daughter from a previous marriage, the snooty Francine Holden Packard (Christine Baranski), is waiting to bring her father's body back to Santa Barbara, California, and bury him next to her mother. But Arvilla has already had him cremated, so Francine makes a deal with her: If Arvilla will bring her husband's ashes to Santa Barbara in time for the funeral service, she will allow Arvilla to keep the house. However, Arvilla had promised Joe before he died that she would scatter his ashes to the wind. So Arvilla and her two best friends, the loud and boisterous Margene Cunningham (Kathy Bates) and the prim and proper Carol Brimm (Joan Allen), set off in Joe's 1966 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, ostensibly to get to the airport to fly to Santa Barbara, but Arvilla has something else on her mind, leading to a funny and poignant road trip across the beautiful American West as the three mature women learn yet more about life, love, and death. Two-time Oscar winner Lange, Oscar winner Bates, and Oscar nominee Allen are terrific as the three friends, with fine support from Tom Skerritt as cool trucker Emmett L. Johnson and Victor Rasuk as a young hitchhiker named Bo who seemingly appears out of nowhere. The locations, beautifully shot by cinematographer Jeffrey L. Kimball, include the Bonneville Salt Flats, Bryce Canyon National Park, Las Vegas, and lots of open road. Mixing in elements of such road-trip films as THELMA & LOUISE, ABOUT SCHMIDT, and LAST ORDERS, and with a country folk soundtrack that features songs by Donovan, Amos Lee, Pete Droge, and Nik Kershaw, BONNEVILLE is a sweet, sincere ride.