Hope Floats Movie Review 1998

Former small town Texas beauty queen Birdee Pruitt (Bullock) finds out her husband Bill (Pare) is having an affair with her best friend (Arquette) live on TV, thanks to a tabloid talk show expose. Completely humiliated, she takes her daughter Bernice (Whitman) and heads home to her own rather spaced-out mom Ramona (Rowlands). She's trying to gain some perspective on her life--and maybe, slowly, find a new love with the help of handsome cowpoke Justin (Connick Jr.) Movie is sweet, sentimental, obvious, and has an appealing cast and a happy ending. Perfect girlfriend fare.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 114 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Parenthood, Moms, Funerals, Marriage, Divorce, Texas, Shutterbugs

Screenplay

Steven Rogers

Cast

Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Cameron Finley, Michael Pare, Rosanna Arquette, Kathy Najimy, Bill Cobbs

Cinematography

Caleb Deschanel

Director

Forest Whitaker

Music

Dave Grusin

Producer

Lynda Obst, Sandra Bullock, Mary McLaglen, Fortis Films, 20th Century-Fox