Where the Heart Is (2000)

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Directed by Matt Williams

Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 2000

Rating: 12 Certificate

Filmed in Colour

Novella Nation (Natalie Portman) is a heavily pregnant 17-year-old from Tennessee who has no-one in her life except the father of her baby Willie Jack ().She's never even been part of a real family before.

The two are heading to California in a beat up Plymouth. En Route the couple stop at a WalMart in a small town called Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Novella uses the opportunity to relieve herself while Willie fills the car.

However on her return from the bathroom Novella realises that Willie and the Plymouth have gone, and everything she owned has gone with him, except a Polaroid camera which is now in place of the car. She has been abandoned, at a WalMart of all places.

She has no job, no qualifications or skills and a mere $5.55 in her pocket so she decides to hide out in the WalMart where she stays until her baby daughter, Americus is born six weeks later.

Novalee decides to raise her daughter and rebuild her life in Sequoyah, with the help of eccentric but kind strangers who take her under her wing.

Now she has the family she always yearned for, Novalee is transformed from a homeless teenager to a very successful , happy and strong young woman in a place she can easily call home.

Based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts.

Cast

Image for Natalie PortmanNatalie PortmanNovalee Nation
Image for Ashley JuddAshley JuddLexie Coop
Stockard ChanningThelma 'Sister' Husband
Image for Joan CusackJoan CusackRuth Meyers
Image for James FrainJames FrainForney Hull
Dylan BrunoWilly Jack Pickens
Ray PrewittTim
Mary Ashleigh GreenGirl in bathroom
Laura HouseNicki
Image for Sally FieldSally FieldMama Lil
Mackenzie FitzgeraldAmericus Nation
Kinna McInroeWal-Mart Clerk
Laura AuldridgeWal-Mart Assistant manager
Karey GreenRhonda
Richard JonesMr. Sprock

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