Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is

  • Director: Matt Williams
  • Writer: Lowell Ganz,Babaloo Mandel,Billie Letts
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 28, 2000
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: 女孩第一名
  • "Where's My Heart" is a romantic film directed by Matt Williams, starring Natalie Portman, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, Keith David and others.
    The film tells the story of a teenage pregnant girl from Tennessee, Novali Nash, who eloped with her boyfriend in California, and found herself abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Oklahoma on the way. After going through hardships, he struggled outside, made friends, gained family affection and love, and had a sincere and rough love story with Librarian Forni. 

    Details

    • Release date April 28, 2000
    • Filming locations Lockhart, Texas, USA
    • Production companies Twentieth Century Fox, Wind Dancer Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $15,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $33,772,838

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $8,292,939

    Gross worldwide

    $40,863,718

    Movie reviews

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    • By Clifford 2022-01-27 08:22:29

      Three touching lines

      "If you feed a cow chocolate you will get chocolate milk; if you lead a cow around you will get whipped cream." How to accompany a child's childhood? Give her a childlike world.

      "Our lives may change every second, forget the past, because the bad guys can't win. We have to keep what we have because we still have each other. People have both good and evil sides, and kindness is worthy of our pursuit, and it is also what we must pass on. Things that go down." How to make a child grow up?...

    • By Rico 2022-01-27 08:22:29

      God tests us with obstacles

      The story is simple and the plot doesn't have too many waves, but it warms your heart with its softness. The river of life never flows quietly, without waves. When you are full of longing for a new life, you don’t know that your scumbag boyfriend will abandon you; when you have a baby with a good yearning for home, you don’t know that your inhuman mother is just here to cheat you for money; when you are ready When you give your baby a Christmas surprise, you don't know that she might be...

    • By Reginald 2022-01-27 08:22:29

      The harder, the more fortunate

      When I was 5 years old, I was abandoned because my mother eloped with others. I was injured by a bad guy while doing waitress in a restaurant. I went to the hospital and had 55 stitches. Drive away for fear of responsibility.

      With nowhere to go, I had to go to the park during the day to feed the pigeons to pass the time, and at night wait for the wal-mart to make a sample and sleep in the store secretly. It seemed that God could not see that all the misfortunes were concentrated in...

    • By Raphael 2022-01-27 08:22:29

      A tough movie

      This paragraph contains spoilers for my emotional experience.
          I saw this movie occasionally after I confessed to a girl I liked and was rejected. That girl's face was a bit Natalie's, which made me admire. But the confession failed, and she even made an excuse to block me, which was really hurt. Like Natalie in the first half of the movie, she only has feelings for guys with good looks and "skinny jeans" because both of her ex-boyfriends have clean, creamy faces. And I am like the...

    • By Orland 2022-01-27 08:22:29

      grey grey, red pink

      It's all a digression: I came back to the office one day with a gray-covered booklet, and when I passed by the front desk, my male colleague suddenly said that the cover of our unit's booklet is simple and elegant in pure pink. Surprised, only after further questioning did he find out that his colleague was colorblind. He was taught that this degree of gray is pink since he was a child.

      Going back to the movie itself, Natalie played this Navelli (…), who was abandoned by her mother...

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    • By Arne 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      It's a very warm film. The first part is that the heroine is so stupid that she wants to cry and feels that she won't die if she doesn't die. Later, she feels that the baby who lacks love and family wants too much love and wants to have a family, alas. Fortunately, there are many people, and they have their own true feelings, and they are healing. Natalie is so pretty! ! The women in it are all beautiful, why are there more beauties in the past, but now there are...

    • By Gillian 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      Just to see Natalie. Maybe people who are short of money and love are easily...

    • By Garrett 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      I saw it a long time ago, but I remember it clearly. Having a baby at Walmart, hanging out with the library boy, and taking a hobby of...

    • By Alexane 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      Natalie's acting skills at that time were young, but it was quite harmonious with the fresh temperament of the...

    • By Delphine 2022-03-26 09:01:13

      The walmart baby thing is...

    Movie plot

    Novali should definitely be regarded as an unlucky girl. She lost her father at the age of 5 and her mother abandoned her in pursuit of a new life. She has lived in a trailer-style house for many years. Now 17-year-old Novali is pregnant, and her boyfriend Willie promises to take her to California to start a new life. Not wanting to be full of joy, she is abandoned by her irresponsible boyfriend in a Walmart supermarket on the road....
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    Movie quotes

    • Willy Jack Pickens: Hey Novalee! Wake up, you sound like the damn pig! Jesus, what the hell is the matter with you? And where are your shoes?

      [looks through the back windshield]

      Willy Jack Pickens: Well that's just great. That's great.

      Novalee Nation: My feet are swollen. I had to take them off.

    • Novalee Nation: [yells] Ooh!

      Willy Jack Pickens: What the hell?

      Novalee Nation: Wal-Mart! I can go to the bathroom!

      Willy Jack Pickens: Alright, hurry up.

      Novalee Nation: Hun, I'm gonna need some money.

      Willy Jack Pickens: They're gonna charge you to pee?

      Novalee Nation: I could get some house shoes. I gotta get some kind of shoes.

      Willy Jack Pickens: Alright, get you some house shoes. Get you some green polka dot house shoes. That way everyone will be sure to notice you!

    • Lexie Coop: My kids could turn this place into a dump before the door closes.