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Where the Heart is
The difficult events are still going on in the life of a pregnant teenager walking on the road with her dreaming boy boyfriend, who gives up at the Wal-Mart store in Oklahoma. He left her alone with almost no money, hiding in the store for 6 weeks until her baby was born. During her pregnancy and stay at this store she got new friends. She also became a friend of Wal-Mart's photographer, who led him to a career.
24 December 1992, Hollywood, California, USA
25 May 1988, Auckland, New Zealand
18 October 1964, Houston, Texas, USA
6 September 1972, Milford, Connecticut, USA
11 October 1962, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1968, Greenville, Mississippi, USA
5 September 1934, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
30 April 1973, Levelland, Texas, USA
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
Portman ... is remarkably persuasive as the unschooled Novalee.
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.
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 29, 2005
... a great big ol' commercial for the Wal-Mart
November 06, 2002
The scenes feel forced, producing episodic plotting and calling attention to the characters' superficiality.
August 01, 2003
...enjoyable enough.
January 01, 2000
A veritable ventricular chamber orchestra of emotional manipulations and easy virtues.
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.
December 29, 2010
A chick flick that's as yummy as eating bon-bons.