Synopsis
Where the Heart Is (2000) Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) is a pregnant seventeen-year-old from Tennessee heading to California with her boyfriend Willie Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), but is abandoned by him at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Novalee has no job, no skills, and only five dollars and fifty-five cents in her pocket, so she secretly lives in the Walmart until her daughter Americus (Mackenzie Fitzgerald) is born six weeks later. Novalee decides to raise her daughter and rebuild her life in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with the help of eccentric but kind strangers. Based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts. ??Stephen Hughes

Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
Budget: $15,000,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $40,863,718
Soundtrack: Mustang Sally (Written by Mack Rice)


Matt Williams
Natalie Portman, James Frain, Ashley Judd
2000-04-28 (United States)
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