Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is
by Matt Williams (II)

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Actor: Ashley Judd, James Frain, Joan Cusack, Natalie Portman, Stockard Channing
Director: Matt Williams (II)
Brand: PORTMAN,NATALIE
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

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Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this show. Ashley, Natalie and Stockard was excellent. The name of this movie matches it perfectly. If you have never seen it rent it first and then buy it. It is well worth the money. I strongly believe renting movies first after getting a couple that sucked big time. This is a 10 + Star type of movie.

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Summary of Where the Heart Is

With the help of her quirky neighbors, a 17-year-old mother begins to rebuild her life after having been abandoned by her boyfriend and giving birth at Wal-Mart.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 13-JAN-2004
Media Type: DVD

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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