Where the Heart Is

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Summary: Where the Heart Is - Don't miss it.
Review: Seems to me most critics only like movies where things blow up, people are killed violently, and there are alot of car chases, but no plot. These receive high marks. High marks should go to where the heart is. If you love a movie with a story, that is warm felt and the characters bring out your emotion. Natalie Portman is superb. You will want to see this one.

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Summary: Great movie
Review: As usual, the critics' reviews of this movie were very unfair. I thought the cast and the story worked very well together (I never read the book, though). I would describe it as a very down-to-earth "chick flick"...and worth every penny. (Better than Steel Magnolias...MUCH better! )

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Summary: Where the Heart Is
Review: This received a lot of disparaging reviews, but the two female friends i went with and i loved this movie. Natalie Portman is not miscast: she is believable as the unlucky young WalMart mother and the movie has wonderful lines and plot moments. Frain is perfectly cast and the movie seems very true-to-life. Sure, lots of melodrama, but it all rings true and it is a really good, satisfying "chick-flick" and i have now seen it twice and loved it more the second time. (p.s. i am a young sixty-seven year old, and used to be a really good movie critic...)

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Summary: Novalee Nation Wouldn't Want To See What I Rated This Movie
Review: In Where The Heart Is, a boyfriend abandons his girl, Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman), at a Wal-Mart, so she lives there for a while, until someone takes her in. She has a baby, and so on. The movie is the most touching flick I have ever seen. I wrote this review the day I saw the movie. The movie lasts a little over two hours, but the time is worth it. But one part might scare the bejeezus out of you. At one scene, a tornado of awesome magnitude (literally, F4) strikes the town Natilie is living in. That part made my heart jump out of my chest. But you should run to a theater with surround sound, grab a ticket, and see the movie. You will be delightfully pleased.

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Summary: Horrible, don't bother seeing this dud
Review: Just like the book, this movie was full of predictable moments and unbelievable dialouge. The premise of the story was riduculous to begin with and it just went downhill from there. Why all the wonderful actresses that were in this movie decided to be in it is beyond me.

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Summary: For Natalie Portman, 5 is a VERY Unlucky Number...
Review: After being abandoned by her trailer-trash boyfriend at a local Wal-Mart, a young woman (nine months pregnant) is left alone. Her journey is remarkable; she goes through labor, loses those people she loves the most, and finally settles down with her daughter and finds the one true person she was meant to be with...Sounds interesting? It is so much better than words can express. This film is sad, funny, and altogether just a great cinema experience that you will never forget. Oh, and did I mention it is based on a true story? Remarkable! (Oh, in a related note, if you were wondering what was up with the fives, you'll have to just see the film to find out for yourself!)

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Summary: Underappreciated by Many
Review: I saw Where the Heart Is before it was released nationwide and I loved it! I thought the performances were wonderful - especially those of Portman and Judd. I felt that the critics underappreciated the movie, and I feel that this would happen if a person saw the movie without reading the book first. Although the movie moves fast, those familiar with the book knows that all those things happen and that it would be hard to cram all the things in the book into a 2-hour movie. The movie was well acted and funny, and I recommend it to anyone!

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Summary: This is the best movie ever!
Review: This story is of family, hope, joy, sadness and all this girl has been through after being dropped off at a walmart by her boyfriend and left there. She then has her baby in the walmart and had lived there for 6 weeks before it came. I won't tell the whole story, but I strongly suggest you get it!

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Summary: A hopeful, joyful movie
Review: The message of this movie is basically summed up when Novalee tells Lexi that we all have meanness in us, but we have good, too, and that's the only thing worth living for. Those words coming from someone who has been tossed around in life so much are especially touching and inspiring. This movie was better than I expected, very sincere and beautifully acted. Natalie Portman, despite what some critics have said, is very believable as the vulnerable but tough heroine. I think critics want to think of "white trash" as exactly that and don't want to recognize the dignity of people who are froced to "live on wheels." Judd is also entirely likeable as Lexi as well as James Frain (Forney) who I have come to like very much (in this and in "Hilary and Jackie"). This is a great film. It glows.

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Summary: SO Good!
Review: Very much a MUST SEE - and I laughed a whole lot more than I cried. This movie was excellent and very true to the book! Natalie Portman is such a unique actress and is really making a name for herself. Ashley Judd was hilarious in this movie, and Stockard Channing acted in one of her best roles in ages. I was also very impressed with James Frain, who played Forney. I thought he was a newcomer, but in doing some research, he's practically a pro!