Product ReviewsHope Floats, One Fine Day, Where The Heart Is (DVD, 2007)

We have three screen queens here, displaying their best, and we are entertained...

Not exactly Rom-Coms, not exactly about relationships, more about rebuilding afterwards, we have three tales about women, w children, who have been left behind, and how they find ways to recover and start to heal emotionally, and learn to trust again. It is their vulnerability that makes these tales so grabbing.
Mae Whitman is so torn, living w her mother, Sandra Bullock, she can't understand why, after all her efforts, her father won't come back, or else take her w him. Hope floats.
Michelle Pfeiffer, single mom w grade school age child, whose ex is a roadie, meets George Clooney, single dad w son who is a schoolmate w Michelle's daughter. These frantic, work stressed singles, find similarities in the demands upon their time, and their children and how they respond to that stress, and they begin to find an attraction building as they start to make time for each other.
Barefoot and pregnant, teenaged Natalie Portman finds herself abandoned at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, where, by necessity, she takes up furtive residence. She is discovered there, giving birth at aisle 9, and after a flurry of celebrity status for that event, finds herself, a single mom trying to discover herself and to make her way in the world. Her innocence and vulnerability are scene stealers and make the viewers want hold her close and protect her, as her new neighbors and friends are want to do.
We have three screen queens here, displaying their best, and we are entertained... Well done.Read full review...

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: second.sale