Where the Heart Is (2000)

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Where the Heart Is

ORIGINAL TITLE

Where the Heart Is

YEAR

2000

RUNNING TIME

120 min.

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COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

Matt Williams

SCREENWRITER

Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel (Novel: Billie Letts)

COMPOSER

Mason Daring

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Richard Greatrex

CAST

Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, Sally Field, James Frain, Dylan Bruno, Ray Prewitt, Mackenzie Fitzgerald

STUDIO/PRODUCER

20th Century Fox

GENRE

Drama | Melodrama

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman), is 17, pregnant, and has never been part of a real home. She has fallen in with a selfish, would-be musician, Willy Jack whom she consideres her boyfriend. While traveling from Tennessee to California in an ancient Plymouth, they stop for a bathroom break, at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart. But when she leaves the store, she discovers that Willy Jack and the Plymouth are gone. Only her Polaroid camera remains in the parking space. Alone and broke, Novalee surreptitiously moves into the vast store, stealing food and supplies from its shelves to survive. When she gives birth on the floor - and her hideaway is revealed - Novalee and her "Wal-Mart Baby" become instant celebrities.

PRO REVIEWS

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"This movie is so heavy on incident, contrivance, coincidence, improbability, sudden reversals and dizzying flash-forwards that it seems a wonder the characters don't crash into each other in the confusion. (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)

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"The Wal-Mart of cinematic soap operas. One-stop shopping for your emotional movie needs." (Susan Wloszczyna: USA Today)
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