Hope Floats
A woman who comes back to her home town in Smithville, Texas, with her daughter after a very sloppy and painful divorce has to deal with the people in her town.
- Director: * Forest Whitaker
- Genre:Drama / Romance
- Runtime:115 minutes
Cast
Sandra Bullock : Birdee Pruitt
Harry Connick Jr.: Justin Matisse
Gena Rowlands : Ramona Calvert
Mae Whitman : Bernice Pruitt
Michael Paré : Bill Pruitt
Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto a talk show under the pretense of a free makeover. The makeover she is given is hardly what she has in mind…as she is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair behind her back with his mistress Connie, who also happens to be her best friend. Humiliated on national television, Birdee and her daughter Bernice (Mae Whitman) move back to Birdee’s hometown of Smithville, Texas with Birdee’s eccentric mother Ramona (Gena Rowlands) to try and make a fresh start.
Birdee struggles to make a new life for herself as a working single mother and must deal with the growing attraction between herself and a former high school classmate, Justin Matisse (Harry Connick, Jr.). She also must deal with rebuilding her relationship with her estranged mother, her ailing father (who suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease), and her daughter, who wants desperately to be with her father and blames her mother for the breakup, even going so far as to try and sabotage the romantic overtures Justin makes towards Birdee. Bernice’s efforts also drive a wedge between her and her mother, leaving Birdee, in her state of depression, becoming more open to the idea of Bernice going to her father.
Adding to Birdee’s heartache is her former status as the school queen bee and a three-time beauty pageant winner, alienating many of her former classmates who have never left Smithville or have left and returned. They also haven’t forgotten Birdee’s high school snobbery and rub her nose in her televised embarrassment from her husband and former friend. Read more
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