Where the Heart Is

• 7.112 Comedy
• 2000-04-27
• 120 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Matt Williams

Writer:

Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel