Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is
by Matt Williams

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Actor: Dylan Bruno, James Frain, Laura House, Natalie Portman, Ray Prewitt
Director: Matt Williams
Brand: PORTMAN,NATALIE
Producer: Carmen Finestra
Producer: David McFadzean
Producer: Diane Minter Lewis
Producer: Gerrit V. Folsom
Writer: Babaloo Mandel
Writer: Billie Letts
Writer: Lowell Ganz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Where the Heart Is

DVD Review: Best Movie Ever
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the best movie I've ever seen. I highly recommend this movie for any age. The movie is reality with a happy ending.

DVD Review: Enjoyable...
Summary: 4 Stars

Where the Heart Is
I really like Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd in this movie. You laugh, you cry... the trials and tribulations of life. Overall I enjoyed the movie. I have watched it a couple of time already.

DVD Review: Great entertaining movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a wonderful feel good movie. I have watched it many times and there is no part that I want to skip over. It is so neat.

DVD Review: LOVE THIS MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars

The story behind this movie in our family is simple. My husband does not care for chick flicks. He would rather be in the other room watching a suspense or horror movie. We borrowed the movie from a family member about seven years ago. I started watching late one night and he went to sleep. When I woke up the next morning he was watching it and actually into it. I has a very good story line, comedy, a horror scene and a woman's favorite - DRAMA. I have watched this movie more than my fingers can count.

DVD Review: Where the heart is
Summary: 3 Stars

Now we know the rest of the story. The book is somewhat didifferent than the movie.

Description of Where the Heart Is

Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman shine in this offbeat, delicious slice of life about a down-on-her-luck Southern teen. After gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby", Novalee Nation (Portman) begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family. It's an inspiring celebration of love, friendship and self-worth that delivers "quality, emotionally satisfying entertainment" (ReelViews).

Not to be confused with the 1990 comedy flop featuring Uma Thurman, this Where the Heart Is boasts a winning performance from Natalie Portman. Novalee Nation (Portman), a pregnant teenager from Tennessee, is bound for California with her worthless boyfriend, Willy Jack (Dylan Bruno). A pit stop at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart proves fateful when Willy Jack abandons her there. She secretly sets up camp at the megastore and spends her days meeting with kindly booster Sister Husband (Stockard Channing) and eccentric librarian Forney Hall (James Frain). Her life takes another turn after she gives birth in the store (clean up, aisle six!) and finds a best friend in sassy nurse Lexie Coop (Ashley Judd). Meanwhile, Willy Jack has found a talent agent (Joan Cusack) and tries to make some life changes of his own.

Where The Heart Is offers charming, folksy fun; homespun wisdom; and an obstacle course of plot development (if the Wal-Mart angle weren't enough, there's also a kidnapping, a tornado, and at least half a dozen other major events thrown in). Director Matt Williams, who produced the popular sitcoms Roseanne and Home Improvement, takes television's cut-to-commercial route to make giant leaps in space and time from scene to scene. It's disorienting, but the remarkable female cast (which includes Sally Field in a cameo) lends plausiblilty to the muddle, even when you don't think anything more could possibly happen. --Shannon Gee

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