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Hope Floats (1998)

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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 8

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Actor/director Forest Whitaker (Waiting to Exhale) helmed this romantic drama about a one-time high-school beauty queen who returns to her hometown of Smithville, TX. The Steven Rogers screenplay begins in Chicago, where blonde Connie (Rosanna Arquette, uncredited) appears on a trashy daytime talk show and tells a nationwide TV audience about her affair with the husband of her best friend, Birdie Pruitt (Sandra Bullock). Walking into the ambush, Birdie is paraded forth for a public humiliation

PG-13,

Drama, Comedy

Steve Rogers

Jan 8, 2002

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for Hope Floats

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (25) | DVD (6)

Redemptive drama ready made for family viewing.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Carly Kocurek
Common Sense Media

... just horrible, horrible, horrible.

January 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The plot of this tear-jerker is a little heavy-handed, and so is the directing by Forest Whitaker.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

Well, no it doesn't.

October 28, 2002
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

In order for us to believe in the future and to step into it with buoyancy, we need the nurturing support of those nearest and dearest to us. Then hope floats.

March 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Nothing spells dull and saccharine quite like the two dreaded H's--hugs and healing.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

This very ordinary story is told soap opera style...

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The first half of this Sandra Bullock vehicle is so winning and observant, it's especially disappointing when the storyline begins losing air at the midway point.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Kevin Lally
Film Journal International

At times heartwarming home-town kitsch, at other times predictable puppy-love pablum for the young and recently separated, Hope Floats... but just barely.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Nitrate Online
Elias Savada
Nitrate Online
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Audience Reviews for Hope Floats

An airy, nothing kind of film, which is always trying to be more than it is. You go in thinking itâ(TM)s some flouncy Sandra Bullock vehicle, where she can be her goofy self while falling in love with the handsomest of men on the planet. Instead of being a romantic comedy it's more of a character study of a bereaved woman who is ridiculed and belittled after suffering public embarrassment. The beginning, when we're first introduced to Birdee, a divorced single mother who moves home after being humiliated by her husband and his lover, itâ(TM)s actually quite moving and sweet. Though the daughter is an intimate character, and a look into the true psychological faculties of a girl her age, the rest of the family and the husband are ridiculous caricatures. Watching the daughter and wife interact, it was hinted that the husband was this deeply flawed character, but he has all the parameters of some nothing villain. Gena Rowlands is a hard hearted eccentric who's only there to thrust Bullock's struggles to the surface. Though I enjoyed what she brought to the film as a character, using her as a plot point further on was despicable. The other kid, a boy who likes to act as things, didn't have enough backstory with his no good mother to render a specific response except distaste. Though his antics and tendency to keep silent were perfectly odd and childlike, I would have liked to see a broader side of him. The movie altogether is schmaltz. What she has to overcome and the way she does it is small stuff, an amalgamation of every other drama of this genre, or of that decade. There is so much someone can do with the breakup of a marriage, but they looked solely on the aftermath though that's not what the movie was trying to accomplish. Look at Blue Valentine and tell me it's hard to make a film that's complex but relates to an ordinary occurrence.
August 8, 2010
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Spencer S.

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Good movie! A little underrated in my opinion, but it's mostly because not too many have seen it. I definitely recommend it! I used to live in Smithville, TX, where the movie was filmed, so I've always liked this film. It's nothing spectacular, but it's worth while. Also, this is one of Sandra Bullock's earlier films, so it's nice seeing where she's come from.
May 17, 2011
jamers2011
Jameson Worley

Super Reviewer

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Hope Floats Quotes

    1. Justin Matisse: Why don't you go down and get dressed, you'll feel better? You gotta feel despressed lookin' like that.
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (46 days ago)
    1. Ramona Calvert: Hey, I am still your mama, Missy. You move it!
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (2 years ago)
    1. Bernice Pruitt: Please don't have a talk with her mother, I'd rather die!
    2. Travis: Don't worry, you will.
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (2 years ago)
    1. Justin Matisse: Why don't you go down and get dressed, you'll feel better? You gotta feel depressed looking like that.
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (2 years ago)
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