Hope Floats
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Movie Reviews of Hope Floats
Movie Review: Hope Floats
Summary: 5 Stars
Title: Hope Floats
Producer: Lynda Obst
Released: 1998
Length: 114 min.
Rating: pg 13
"Sandra Bullock gives her most critically acclaimed performance in this touching and heart warming story about following your heart and finding yourself. Birdee Pruitt {Bullock} has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband infidelity to her on a national television show, then her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated Birdee, and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother, and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains strength to open up her heart, and find hope again.
"Hope Floats" is just like my life. My dad cheats on my mom, we move in with our grandma and grandpa, and then we struggle to fit into our new environment.
For instance, I think it is a good movie because it is sad, and it is just like my life. Like when my Barents split, my mom went on a date and I didn't like the guy she was with, and I didn't want her to talk to him. In the movie the little girl felt the same way I did when my parents broke up.
Next, I thought it was very sad, because of what the little girl had to go through, and how she always felt.
Finally, I can tell you that I thought it was funny. If you're the type that likes a mixture of things, like humor, sad, witty, etc... Than this is your kind of movie.
It is such a realistic movie. Everything that happens in real life happens in the movie. I highly recommend this movie for the ages 11-99 should see this movie.
I'm not telling you what happens in the end of the movie. So if you want to know what happens, than go rent it.
By: Shelby Selig
Movie Review: deeply connected to this movie..
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw Hope Floats when it was released in theaters back in 98(?) I deeply connected to this movie because I was in a very unhappy first marriage to my high school sweetheart, i was 25 and had a young daughter. This movie made me realize that I could NOT be the only one in my marriage to make it work. I realized that it was unhealthy, and it was time for me to move on with my life, and that wasnt a bad thing. So basically, this movie gave me the strength and insight to move on. I think this movie depicted very acurately the stages of grief that i went through while my marriage was breaking apart. I still think this is one of Sandra Bullock's best films. I loved every actor in this movie. Harry Connick was sensational, Gena Rowland is perfect, and the little girl who played Bernice did exceptionally well. The scene where she wants to go with her dad was sooo well acted, I couldnt believe this was a child acting.
This will forever be one of my favorite movies because it paralled my life when it came out. And a year after watching this movie, I met MY Justin Matice(Harry Connick)! The soundtrack is great too, by the way.
Movie Review: A beautiful drama
Summary: 5 Stars
Sandra Bullock ("Lake House") stars as Birdiee Pruitt, a beauty queen and former cheerleader who has to move back to her small town in rural Texas with her young daughter after her loser husband Bill reveals that he cheated on her on a TV show. Birdie, sad and broken hearted, leaves Chicago with 8-year-old Bernice (Mae Whitman, "Jungle Book 2") and returns to the town she's always tried to escape from. Once there, she moves back in with her eccentric mother Ramona (Gena Rowlands, "The Notebook") and has deal with her old high school friends again and also must find the inner strength to move on. She does find love again, however, with her childhood friend Justin. My favorite parts of the movie are between Birdie and Bernice. I liked that Sandra Bullock actually had a daughter in this movie. Bernice is a cute little girl, and is lonely and wants her Daddy back. Sandra is probably the best actor in the whole film, and gives a stellar performance as a young mother and Southeran belle who must find the courage to move on from her past. It's a heartwarming and funny movie, and I think it's for people of any age.Movie Review: Very Emotional
Summary: 5 Stars
This is as close to real life as it gets , like the saying "when it rains it pours" Well Birdie suffered from a cheating husband, depression, jobless,"matchmaking mother" and a daughter who blamed it all on her Mom and then BAM !!! Her mother passes away and her cheating husband has the nerve to show up with divorce papers ???? That poor girl . It was like what Birdies Mother said to Bernice . ' My birdie has more strength than she has ever known . I admired "Birdie" in this movie , not only did she go on with life but it is true that "Hope Floats" and you "just have to move on with it"( Gena Rowlands)(Miss Romana) . I cryed , I smiled , I got angry and last I cryed with happy tears . My all time favorite movie . Thank you ..Movie Review: A HUMAN INTEREST MASTERPIECE!
Summary: 5 Stars
HOPE FLOATS, starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr., is a wonderful, moving story that strikes at the heart of what all such human interest stories should be.
Birdee Calvert returns home to rural Texas with her daughter after being betrayed by her husband and best friend and tries to pick up the pieces of what she believes is an irreversibly damaged life. Instead she discovers that the best of her and of life was there all along.
Gena Rowlands marvelously portrays Birdee's eccentric mother and the remaining cast is a potpourri of great faces, none showy enough to be out of place and all the likes of those that Norman Rockwell would have been proud to portray in one of his "slice-of-life" masterpieces.
THE HORSEMAN