Where the Heart Is

17-year-old and seven-months-pregnant Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) and her boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno) are moving from Tennessee to California. Willy Jack abandons Novalee at the local Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma when she uses the restroom and buys new shoes. There, she meets Thelma "Sister" Husband (Stockard Channing) who presents her with a buckeye tree, and Moses Whitecotton (Keith David), a local photographer who advises her to give her baby a strong name. A sickly and homeless Novalee is forced to live in the Walmart, undetected. Novalee also becomes acquainted with surly librarian Forney Hull (James Frain) who cares for his alcoholic sister Mary Elizabeth (Margaret Hoard).

MPAA Rating:	PG-13
Genre:	Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country:	United States
Produced By:	David Mcfadzean, Matt Williams, Susan Cartsonis, Carmen Finestra, Patricia Whitcher, Gerrit V. Folsom, Roz Weisberg, Rick Leed, Diane Minter Lewis
Directed By:	Matt Williams
Written By:	Babaloo Mandel, Billie Letts, Lowell Ganz
Cast:	Kylie Harmon, Alicia Godwin, Tony Mann, Dan Eggleston, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Thalia Harithas, Margaret Hoard, Kinna McInroe, Susan Hegarty, Sue McCormick, David Alvarado, Stacy Bellew, Deborah Abbott, Dennis Letts, Richard Andrew Jones, Natalie Portman, Heather Kafka, Stockard Channing, Cassandra L. Small, Richard Nance, Cody Linley, Lisa Del Dotto, Bobby Shue, Cheyenne Rushing, Mary Ashleigh Green, Scarlett McAlister, Molly Howe, Laura Auldridge, Rebecca Davis, Ray Prewitt, Bob Coonrod, Angee Hughes, Kathryn Esquivel, Nataly Peña, Dylan Bruno, Adrian Garza, Karey Green, Russell Towery, J.D. Evermore, Mackenzie Fitzgerald, Todd Lowe, Jim Henry, Rodger Boyce, Sally Field, Mark Voges, Linda Wakeman, Katelin Petersen, K. Todd Lytle, Erica Mincks, Gena West, John Swasey, Jeremy Denzlinger, Ashley Judd, R.C. Keene, Laura House, Gabriel Folse, Angelina Fiordellisi, Chris Warner, Alecia Batson, Yvette Diaz, Trevor Doyle Nelson, Mark Mathis, Keith David
In Theaters:	Apr 28, 2000
Runtime:	2 hours
Production:	Twentieth Century Fox, Wind Dancer Productions
Budget:	$15,000,000
Box Office:	$33,772,838
Available On:	Amazon, Itunes, Vudu
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