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starring: Portman, Judd, Channing, Cusack, F
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0024543007265
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 06, 2001
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 2173
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Where the Heart is
I have watched part of it, but I have not had the chance to watch it completely. However, what I have watched of it, I have enjoyed it.
Rating:  - Excellent
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.
Rating: - Pure entertainment and fun
I reccommend this movie to anyone who likes romance, likes to laugh and is tired of all of the "reality" trashy movies that Hollywood seems to think everyone wants to watch.
The characters are all a little off-center, but that is what makes this movie fun.
The best reason to purchase this movie is to see the full entire length of the movie. I have seen this movie several times on TV, almost everytime it is shown, the movie is edited so it will run in a two hour time slot including commercials. ... Read More
Rating:  - Where the Fart Is
Oh, my God... what's that awful smell? Wait a minute... it's this stinking film. Let's see, why don't we throw in pathetic, one-sided acting, along with predictable stock characters, and unbelievable (and yet somehow predictable) trollop. I've seen television that's better than this (and that's saying quite a lot). Add a dash of Natalie Portman, Sallie Field, and Stockard Channing---who all seem to have the winning streak of a 19 year-old 100:1 race horse---and you have a mix for an old fashioned olfactory ... Read More
Rating: - Where The Heart Is
I have enjoyed this movie many times. It has heart breaking moments as well as very happy times in it.
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