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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Music director
  
Writer
  
Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb


Director
  
Screenplay
  
Steven Rogers

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
May 29, 1998

Executive producers
  
Sandra Bullock, Mary McLaglen

Cast
  
(Birdee Pruitt),
Harry Connick Jr.
(Justin Matisse), (Ramona Calvert), (Bernice Pruitt),
Michael Paré
(Bill Pruitt), (Toni Post)

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Tagline
  
When life fell apart, love fell into place.

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Hope Floats is a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Forrest Whittaker and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr., and Gena Rowlands.

Contents

Hope Floats movie scenes

Birdee (Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity to her on a Ricki Lake-style talk show. She goes home to her mother (Rowlands) and the small town in which she grew up, where everyone knows of her televised marital collapse. Meanwhile, an old friend, Justin (Connick, Jr.), has entered her life, sparking a romance. While Justin's intentions are clear and good, Birdee struggles with the decision to let him fully into her life.

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Plot

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Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto the Toni Post talk show under the pretense of getting a free makeover but instead is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend Connie (Rosanna Arquette). Humiliated on national television, Birdee and her precocious daughter Bernice (Mae Whitman) move back to Birdee's hometown of Smithville, Texas, with Birdee's eccentric mother Ramona (Gena Rowlands) and young, imaginative nephew Travis (Cameron Finley), to make a fresh start. As Birdee and Bernice leave Chicago, Birdee gives Bernice a letter from her father, telling Bernice how much he misses her.

Birdee struggles to make a new life as a working single mother and deals with the growing attraction between herself and a former high school classmate, Justin Matisse (Harry Connick, Jr.), who Ramona hopes that Birdee will get together with. She also tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged mother, her ailing father (who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease), and her daughter, who wants desperately to be with her father and blames her mother for the breakup, even trying to sabotage the romantic overtures Justin makes towards Birdee. Meanwhile, Bernice is not happy that she left Chicago and is having difficulty adjusting to life in Smithville. Her negative view of the small town is worsened when she is bullied by a classmate known as Big Dolores.

Adding to Birdee's heartache is her former status as the school queen bee and a beauty pageant winner, which alienated many of her former classmates. They also haven't forgotten Birdee's high school snobbery and rub her nose in her televised embarrassment.

Ramona tries to mend the gap between her daughter and granddaughter by telling a childhood story of her own. She asks Bernice what she's wishing for her upcoming birthday. Even though Bernice says she doesn't have a birthday wish, she secretly wishes for her father to return.

That night, drinking a cup of tea before she could sleep, Ramona suffers a massive heart attack and dies. At the funeral, Bill arrives at the church. Bernice believes her father's presence is a sign her wish has come true...that her father wants them both to come home. However, it soon becomes clear to her that her parents' split is permanent when Bill asks Birdee for a divorce. Wanting to be with her father, Bernice runs up to her room, packs a suitcase, and follows Bill to his car. She is devastated when her father tells her that even though he loves her, he has no room for her in his new life with Connie. Bill turns his back on Bernice and drives off, leaving her sobbing and screaming for him to come back and take her with him at the end of the driveway. Birdee comes to pick Bernice up and carries her into the house. As Birdee comforts Bernice up in her room, Bernice learns the letter was actually written by her mother, and not really by her father.

One day at work, Birdee finds Justin outside waiting for her with flowers. As she walks to him, she says, "Ok, Mama, stop pushing". After they kiss and embrace, he picks her up, places her in his truck and they drive off together.

The final scene shows Birdee, Justin, Bernice, and Travis at a big town event. Birdee is now taking care of Travis and dating Justin, but isn't planning on getting married again for a really long time. Bernice welcomes Smithville as her new hometown, ultimately accepts Bill's departure from her life as a full-time parent, and begins to accept Justin as her mother's new love interest and a father figure. She and Birdee are much closer because of everything they've been through, as Bernice finally realizes it wasn't her mother's fault that her father left them and that Birdee really did love her. They share a tender, yet humorous moment when Bernice asks Birdee if she's going to marry Justin. When Birdee asks her if she doesn't like Justin, Bernice says her only real concern is being known as "Bernice Matisse".

Cast

  • Sandra Bullock as Birdee Pruitt
  • Harry Connick, Jr. as Justin Matisse
  • Gena Rowlands as Ramona Calvert
  • Mae Whitman as Bernice Pruitt
  • Michael Paré as Bill Pruitt
  • Cameron Finley as Travis
  • Kathy Najimy as Toni Post
  • Bill Cobbs as Nurse
  • Connie Ray as Bobbi-Claire Patterson
  • Rosanna Arquette as Connie (uncredited)
  • Filming

    Hope Floats was filmed in Smithville, Texas. The home in the movie is the McCollum-Chapman-Trousdale House, built in the Neoclassical style in 1908. The elementary school in the movie is a 1924 high school building. The church used was Saints Peter and Paul Church in Kovar, TX, about 6 miles from Smithville. The church was built in 1921.

    The film was choreographed by Patsy Swayze.

    Soundtrack

    The film's soundtrack was released in 1998 under the production of Don Was. The album included the works of artists such as Garth Brooks, the Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, and Sheryl Crow. One of the singles, Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love", was a Number One single on the Billboard country singles charts in August 1998 and also a Grammy Award nominee in 1999 for Male Country Vocal performance.

    Score

    Hope Floats: Original Score Soundtrack

    1. "To Make You Feel My Love" – Garth Brooks (3:53)
    2. "In Need" – Sheryl Crow (5:29)
    3. "Honest I Do" – The Rolling Stones (3:55)
    4. "Chances Are" – Bob Seger and Martina McBride (4:17)
    5. "All I Get" – The Mavericks (4:08)
    6. "Paper Wings" – Gillian Welch (3:57)
    7. "Stop! In the Name of Love" – Jonell Mosser with David Campbell (4:31)
    8. "Wither, I'm a Flower" – Whiskeytown (4:53)
    9. "What Makes You Stay" – Deana Carter (4:35)
    10. "To Get Me to You" – Lila McCann (3:50)
    11. "Smile" – Lyle Lovett with David Campbell(3:38)
    12. "When You Love Someone" – Bryan Adams (3:39)
    13. "To Make You Feel My Love" – Trisha Yearwood (2:57)

    Critical response

    The film holds a 24% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

    Awards and nominations

  • 1999 ALMA Awards
  • Nomination: Outstanding Performance of a Song for a Feature Film - The Mavericks for the song "All I Get".
  • 1999 Acapulco Black Film Festival
  • Nomination: Best Director - Forest Whitaker
  • 1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
  • Nomination: Favorite Actor - Drama/Romance - Harry Connick Jr.
  • Nomination: Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama/Romance - Gena Rowlands
  • 1999 Lone Star Film & Television Awards
  • Winner: Best Actress - Sandra Bullock
  • Winner: Best Supporting Actress - Gena Rowlands
  • 1999 Young Artist Awards
  • Winner: Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Under - Mae Whitman
  • Nomination: Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Under - Cameron Finley
  • 1998 YoungStar Awards
  • Nomination: Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Drama Film - Cameron Finley
  • Nomination: Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film - Mae Whitman
  • References

    Hope Floats Wikipedia
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