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Where the Heart is
The dramatic film revolves around an interesting array of romantic situations. Novali travels with her boyfriend on a trip to California, stopping next to a store in Oklahoma. She goes to the bathroom and when she returns, she finds Willy gone. Novali is very shocked, but decides to stay alone, and the problem is that she has little money and does not have any skills. Novaly sneaks in overnight at the store and starts making friends with a different group of strangers.
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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.
December 02, 2002
Unfortunately, the spirited performances (notably Stockard Channing as the benevolent Sister Husband) buckle under the weight of the implausibly overloaded script.
December 08, 2002
This is as irritating as chick flicks come and it's a real disappointment since Portman's talents are totally wasted.
December 29, 2010
A chick flick that's as yummy as eating bon-bons.
August 01, 2003
...enjoyable enough.
January 01, 2000
Delightful.
January 29, 2005
... a great big ol' commercial for the Wal-Mart
April 25, 2003
Not possessing much in the way of a character arc, saints are boring to watch and impossible to act.
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.
January 01, 2000
Portman ... is remarkably persuasive as the unschooled Novalee.
January 01, 2000
A veritable ventricular chamber orchestra of emotional manipulations and easy virtues.
November 06, 2002
The scenes feel forced, producing episodic plotting and calling attention to the characters' superficiality.
