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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, 1 hr. 54 min.

Drama, Comedy

Steve Rogers

Jan 8, 2002

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (25) | DVD (6)

Redemptive drama ready made for family viewing.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

... just horrible, horrible, horrible.

January 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
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 | Comment
Film Quips Online

Well, no it doesn't.

October 28, 2002 Comment
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 | Comment
Spirituality and Practice
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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

August 8, 2010
FrizzDrop

Super Reviewer

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,

May 17, 2011
jamers2011
Jameson Worley

Super Reviewer

    1. Ramona Calvert: Hey, I am still your mama, Missy. You move it!
    – Submitted by Alyssa B (4 months 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 (4 months 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 (4 months ago)

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