• StatusReleased
  • Release Date2000-04-27
  • Runtime120 minutes
  • TaglineLaughter is harder... Friendship is stronger... Trust is deeper... When it comes from the heart.
  • Revenue33,800,000$
  • GenreComedy, Drama, Romance
  • Production
    CompaniesWind Dancer Films, 20th Century Fox
  • Budget15,000,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Natalie Portman

Ashley Judd

Stockard Channing

Joan Cusack

Sally Field

James Frain

Dylan Bruno

Keith David

Ray Prewitt

Mary Ashleigh Green

David Alvarado

Todd Lowe

Rodger Boyce

Dennis Letts

Richard Andrew Jones

J.D. Evermore

John Swasey

Scarlett McAlister

Cody Linley

Heather Kafka

Cheyenne Rushing

Rebecca Davis

Jeremy Denzlinger

Cassandra L. Small

Russell Towery

Chris Warner

Gena West