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Hope Floats

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Hope Floats

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Summary

Romantic comedy drama starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr and Gena Rowlands. A woman returns home with a painful divorce behind her and has to confront her family and old friends.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Joanna Berry

Sandra Bullock (who also executive-produced and had a hand in the casting of co-star Harry Connick Jr) stars here as Birdee, who finds out via a Ricki Lake-style talk show that her husband has been unfaithful (the best scene in the film). So she decides to return to the small home town where she was once a beauty queen to get over the pain, with her mother (Gena Rowlands) and young daughter at her side. There's far too much moping and sobbing before she realises that the boy next door (Connick Jr) is now rather hunky. Bullock should have had the sense to change the title and reduce the wallowing, but Waiting to Exhale director Forest Whitaker makes the scenes of budding romance amusing. It's those nice touches of humour (plus the wonderful performance of Rowlands) that manage to save the film.

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6.1/10

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Cast

rolenameBirdee PruittSandra BullockJustin MatisseHarry Connick JrRamona CalvertGena RowlandsBernice PruittMae WhitmanBill PruittMichael ParéTravisCameron FinleyToni PostKathy NajimyNurseBill CobbsConnieRosanna Arquette

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rolenameDirectorForest Whitaker

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd

Released on

1998-11-13

Languages

English

Guidance

Swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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