Hope Floats

Cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock is a homemaker who learns that her husband and best friend are having an affair. The so-called best friend reveals this information on a national chat show, leaving Bullock devastated and disgraced. Heading back to her small hometown in Texas, she seeks refuge with her eccentric mother. Laconic Harry Connick Jr., a former high-school classmate, attempts to bring Bullock out of her depression and win her heart. He has, you see, been carrying a torch for her since they were kids. You will not need a crystal ball to see where this is going. It works as a middling romance, but is an annoying waste of potential. The script has much to say about finding your true identity, but does so with all the sentimentality and depth of a Hallmark card. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Genre: Drama, Romance

Stars: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman

Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

3 wins & 9 nominations.


IMDB:: 5.9
Metacritic:: 42
Rotten Tomatoes:: 24%

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: PG-13
Year:: 1998
: 114
: $60,033,780
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Bernice Pruitt:
Mom, are you gonna marry Justin Matisse?

Birdee Pruitt:
Oh, honey, I'm not planning on getting married again for along time. What, you don't like Justin?

Bernice Pruitt:
No, it's not that. It's just that...

Birdee Pruitt:
What is it? You can tell me.

Bernice Pruitt:
I just don't want to be known as Bernice Matisse!

Bernice Pruitt:
Is this where you were "cream of corn"?

Birdee Pruitt:
"Queen of Corn," honey. Three years runnin'. A feat unsurpassed in the history of Smithville.

Birdee Pruitt:
Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That's what momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will...

Birdee Pruitt:
Once upon a time your mama knew what it meant to shine.

Birdee Pruitt:
People fall in love. They fall right back out. It happens all the time.

Justin Matisse:
Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me.

Ramona Calvert:
Look at me. My life has no meaning or direction, and I'm happy.

Bernice Pruitt:
At home we had a pet skunk. Mama used to call it Justin Matisse. Do you think that's just a coincidence? All day long she would to scream, "You stink Justin Matisse!" Then one day she just picked up a club and killed it.

Justin Matisse:
Now that's a sad story.

Bernice Pruitt:
If you liked the skunk, which we didn't.

Birdee Pruitt:
Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Birdee Pruitt:
You just never liked Bill.

Ramona Calvert:
Oh, I like all of God's creatures, I just like some of them better stuffed. And he's one of them.

Birdee Pruitt:
Who's Big Dolores?

Travis:
She's the meanest and dumbest girl in school, but she keeps passing cause even teachers are afraid of big Dolores. She has her own gang too.

Bernice Pruitt:
Please don't have a talk with her mother. I'd rather die!

Travis:
Oh, don't worry. You will.

Birdee Pruitt:
Better do what she says, Travis, grandma stuffs little dogs.

Ramona Calvert:
You think it's easy being green?

Ramona Calvert:
You smell jus delicious, Justin, you wearin' cologne?

Justin Matisse:
Naw, just sweat with a little paint thinner mixed in.

Justin Matisse:
Why don't you go down and get dressed, you gotta feel depressed looking like that.

Ramona Calvert:
Boy, she had a face on her like a bucket of worms.