Where the Heart Is (2000)

Where the Heart Is | United States of America

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 in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

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Description

Director

Matt Williams

Writers

Lowell Ganz

Stars

Natalie Portman
Novalee Nation

Ashley Judd
Lexie Coop

Stockard Channing
Thelma 'Sister' Husband

Joan Cusack
Ruth Meyers

Sally Field
Mama Lil

James Frain
Forney Hull

Dylan Bruno
Willy Jack Pickens

Keith David
Moses Whitecotten

Ray Prewitt
Tim

Laura House
Nicki

Others...

Budget

15,000,000.00

Revenue

33,771,174.00

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Keywords

baby, change, california, pregnancy and birth, supermarket, teenage pregnancy, tennessee, unwillingly pregnant, oklahoma, starting over, pregnant minor

Production

20th Century Fox, Wind Dancer Films

Actor

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 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

Creators

Lowell Ganz (Screenplay), Mason Daring (Original Music Composer), Richard Greatrex (Director of Photography), Ian Crafford (Editor), Matt Williams (Director), Billie Letts (Novel)

Alternative titles

Où le coeur nous mène (FR)
Der det er hjerterom (NO)

Release dates

27.04.2000 (US)
09.11.2000 (DE)
15.05.2001 (FR)
14.09.2000 (IT)