Where the Heart Is

Release Date: 2003-01-14, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

When her boyfriend ditches her, a pregnant 17-year-old (Portman) finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in a small Oklahoma town. After she takes out a secret "home" in a corner of the store, the jobless and broke young lady soon finds a host of colorful new friends willing to help her as she embarks on a new life.

When her boyfriend ditches her, a pregnant 17-year-old (Portman) finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in a small Oklahoma town. After she takes out a secret "home" in a corner of the store, the jobless and broke young lady soon finds a host of colorful new friends willing to help her as she embarks on a new life.

Release Date: 2001-02-06, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2003-01-14, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Release Date: 2000-09-26, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

A lighthearted drama about finding your place in the world under the most unlikely circumstances WHERE THE HEART IS stars Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation a pregnant young girl who is running away to California with her boyfriend an aspiring country singer. When he abandons her at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart Novalee has no choice but to stay behind. She lives in the Wal-Mart until the baby comes and the resulting birth turns her into a celebrity. As the years go by Novalee continues to live in the small town and eventually finds herself falling in love with the kindhearted local librarian.

A lighthearted drama about finding your place in the world under the most unlikely circumstances WHERE THE HEART IS stars Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation a pregnant young girl who is running away to California with her boyfriend an aspiring country singer. When he abandons her at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart Novalee has no choice but to stay behind. She lives in the Wal-Mart until the baby comes and the resulting birth turns her into a celebrity. As the years go by Novalee continues to live in the small town and eventually finds herself falling in love with the kindhearted local librarian.

DVDs. Where the Heart Is

Release Date: 2000-09-26, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Comedy Drama DVD - Winsome Natalie Portman, in her first bona fide starring vehicle, lights up the screen as the plucky heroine of this warm, engaging drama, adapted from a well-received novel by Billie Letts. She plays an uneducated Southern teenager named Novalee Nation, impregnated and eventually abandoned by a callow rock-star wannabe. After giving birth in a Wal-Mart, Novalee takes up residence in a small town and acquires a group of friends that includes a hard working single mom (Ashley Judd), a Bible-quoting tippler (Stockard Channing), and an eccentric young librarian (James Frain). Former sitcom director Matt Williams takes his audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride with these immensely likable characters; we soar to blissful heights and plummet to the darkest depths at their side. But even when buffeted by tragedy, Novalee and her friends retain an essential optimism, a belief that gain invariably follows loss, which lifts their spirits and eventually brings tranquility. Guaranteed to stir th

Comedy Drama DVD - Where the Heart Is (DVD)