Laughter is harder... Friendship is stronger... Trust is deeper... When it comes from the heart.
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
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Classical in form, contemporary, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Natalie PortmanNovalee Nation
- Ashley JuddLexie Coop
- Stockard ChanningThelma 'Sister' Husband
- Joan CusackRuth Meyers
- Sally FieldMama Lil
- James FrainForney Hull
- Dylan BrunoWilly Jack Pickens
- Keith DavidMoses Whitecotten
- Ray PrewittTim
- Laura HouseNicki
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- Matt WilliamsDirector
- Lowell GanzScreenplay
- Babaloo MandelScreenplay
- Billie LettsNovel
- Richard GreatrexDirector of Photography
- Mason DaringOriginal Music Composer
- Ian CraffordEditor
- Matt WilliamsProducer
- Susan CartsonisProducer
- David McFadzeanProducer
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