Movie
Where the Heart Is
Overview
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-04-27
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Wind Dancer Films, 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation
- Ashley Judd as Lexie Coop
- Stockard Channing as Thelma 'Sister' Husband
- Joan Cusack as Ruth Meyers
- Sally Field as Mama Lil
- James Frain as Forney Hull
- Dylan Bruno as Willy Jack Pickens
- Keith David as Moses Whitecotten
- Ray Prewitt as Tim
- Laura House as Nicki
- Mary Ashleigh Green as Girl in Bathroom
- Kinna McInroe as Wal-Mart Clerk
Crew
- Matt Williams - Director
- Lowell Ganz - Screenplay
- Babaloo Mandel - Screenplay
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