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Where the Heart Is
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.
2000 · Directed by Matt Williams · 120 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 8 frames
Tagline
Laughter is harder... Friendship is stronger... Trust is deeper... When it comes from the heart.
Crew
- Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
- Cinematography: Richard Greatrex
- Edited by: Ian Crafford
- Music: Mason Daring
- Production design: Paul Peters
- Produced by: Matt Williams, Susan Cartsonis, David McFadzean, Patricia Whitcher
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
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Wind Dancer Films, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $33,800,000
- Themes: california, baby, supermarket, change, photographer, pregnancy, tornado, oklahoma, romcom, rags to riches
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