Where the Heart Is
- Released on
Comedy, Drama, Romance
•- Runtime
- 120 mins
(683 votes)
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.
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
- Natalie Portman
- Ashley Judd
- Stockard Channing
- Joan Cusack
- Sally Field
- James Frain
- Dylan Bruno
- Keith David
- Ray Prewitt
- Laura House
- Mary Ashleigh Green
- Kinna McInroe
- Linda Wakeman
- David Alvarado
- Mark Voges
- Todd Lowe
- Margaret Hoard
- Rodger Boyce
- Gabriel Folse
- Sue McCormick
- Karey Green
- Laura Auldridge
- Alicia Godwin
- Dennis Letts
- Richard Andrew Jones
- Kathryn Esquivel
- Mark Mathis
- J.D. Evermore
- Angee Hughes
- Mackenzie Fitzgerald
- Nataly Peña
- Yvette Diaz
- T.J. McFarland
- Richard Nance
- Tony Mann
- John Swasey
- Scarlett McAlister
- Kylie Harmon
- Cody Linley
- Bob Coonrod
- Heather Kafka
- Angelina Fiordellisi
- Cheyenne Rushing
- Deborah Abbott
- Alecia Batson
- Stacy Bellew
- Jeff Cooper
- Rebecca Davis
- Lisa Del Dotto
- Jeremy Denzlinger
- Dan Eggleston
- Adrian Garza
- Jim Henry
- Molly Howe
- K. Todd Lytle
- Erica Mincks
- Trevor Doyle Nelson
- Bobby Shue
- Cassandra L. Small
- Russell Towery
- Chris Warner
- Gena West
- Jerry Wu
- Jason C. Young
Director
- Matt Williams
Producers
- Matt Williams
- Susan Cartsonis
- David McFadzean
- Patricia Whitcher
Screenwriter
- Lowell Ganz
- Babaloo Mandel