Where the Heart Is (2000)

Directors:

Matt Williams

Writers:

Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel

Actors:

Chris Warner, Russell Towery, Cassandra L. Small, Trevor Doyle Nelson, Bobby Shue, Erica Mincks

Synopsis:

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
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Where the Heart Is (2000)

So this is review 300. Natalie Portman plays her run-down role with impossible dignity and is definitely the saving grace of this otherwise pulsating ball of puerility. One of, if not the worst, book-to-movie adaptations this Reeler can recall.
MildredFierce
June 20, 2014