Overview - Where the Heart Is

Date of release

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance

Runtime: 120 minutes

Homepage: Where the Heart Is

Budget

$15,000,000.00

Revenue

$33,800,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Wind Dancer Films

    Production country

  • Name: 20th Century Fox

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Natalie Portman

    Character: Novalee Nation

    Popularity: 41.548

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  • Name: Ashley Judd

    Character: Lexie Coop

    Popularity: 19.831

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  • Name: Stockard Channing

    Character: Thelma 'Sister' Husband

    Popularity: 15.924

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  • Name: Joan Cusack

    Character: Ruth Meyers

    Popularity: 17.808

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  • Name: Sally Field

    Character: Mama Lil

    Popularity: 15.003

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  • Name: James Frain

    Character: Forney Hull

    Popularity: 10.006

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  • Name: Dylan Bruno

    Character: Willy Jack Pickens

    Popularity: 6.886

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  • Name: Keith David

    Character: Moses Whitecotten

    Popularity: 18.868

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