Where the Heart Is poster
Director Matt Williams
Screenplay Babaloo Mandel, Lowell Ganz

Where the Heart Is

Tagline: Laughter is harder... Friendship is stronger... Trust is deeper... When it comes from the heart.

Release Date: 2000-04-27

Duration: 120 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Natalie Portman
    Novalee Nation
  • Sally Field
    Mama Lil
  • Joan Cusack
    Ruth Meyers
  • Stockard Channing
    Thelma 'Sister' Husband
  • Ashley Judd
    Lexie Coop
  • Todd Lowe
    Troy
  • Keith David
    Moses Whitecotten
  • James Frain
    Forney Hull
  • Dylan Bruno
    Willy Jack Pickens
  • Mary Ashleigh Green
    Girl in Bathroom