Something went wrong
Try again later.
Where the Heart is
Comedy events mixed with difficult situations in the life of Novale Nation. A 17-year-old pregnant woman from Tennessee to California with her boyfriend Willie Jack, but was abandoned at the Wal-Mart store in Sequoia, Oklahoma. Novali has no job or skills and only $ 5.55 in her pocket, so she lives secretly at Wal-Mart until her daughter Americus was born six weeks later. Novaly decided to raise her daughter and rebuild her life in Sequoia.
24 December 1992, Hollywood, California, USA
7 July 1972, Austin, Texas, USA
10 May 1977, Houston, Texas, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
25 May 1988, Auckland, New Zealand
December 02, 2002
Unfortunately, the spirited performances (notably Stockard Channing as the benevolent Sister Husband) buckle under the weight of the implausibly overloaded script.
January 01, 2000
Where the Heart Is has a screenplay like that, zigging and zagging and wildly careening from one melodramatic development to the next.
April 25, 2003
Not possessing much in the way of a character arc, saints are boring to watch and impossible to act.
January 29, 2005
... a great big ol' commercial for the Wal-Mart
January 01, 2000
A veritable ventricular chamber orchestra of emotional manipulations and easy virtues.
July 02, 2004
The script, based on a novel by Billie Lett, is sprinkled with phrases meant to be poignant and funny, but sound like repackaged cliches.
January 01, 2000
Portman ... is remarkably persuasive as the unschooled Novalee.
August 01, 2003
...enjoyable enough.
January 01, 2000
Delightful.
December 08, 2002
This is as irritating as chick flicks come and it's a real disappointment since Portman's talents are totally wasted.
December 29, 2010
A chick flick that's as yummy as eating bon-bons.
November 06, 2002
The scenes feel forced, producing episodic plotting and calling attention to the characters' superficiality.
