
Birdee Calvert-Pruitt is back in her hometown of Smithville, Texas, after discovering that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. The entire town knows what happened to flawless beauty Birdee since Connie let her know about the affair on a national talk show. Back in town, she's dealing with catty old friends and acquaintances from high school who can't help rubbing it in her face that she isn't as perfect as she thought while still trying to get back o... (Full plot summary below)
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Birdee Calvert-Pruitt is back in her hometown of Smithville, Texas, after discovering that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. The entire town knows what happened to flawless beauty Birdee since Connie let her know about the affair on a national talk show. Back in town, she's dealing with catty old friends and acquaintances from high school who can't help rubbing it in her face that she isn't as perfect as she thought while still trying to get back on her feet with her daughter, Bernice. Deeply depressed, she runs into an old friend, Justin Matisse, who tries to help her through, but is still in love with her. Birdee must make a new life for her and her daughter, but will Justin be able to be part of it?
Leave your thoughts about Hope Floats.
| Film Journal InternationalKevin LallyThe 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. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserThe ordinariness of the material gives way to the winning personalities of the stars. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA sharper edge could have taken a pretty good, if uneven, picture to greater heights, considering its potent ingredients and actors. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumBullock, Rowlands, Whitman, and others in the cast -- most notably Harry Connick Jr. -- acquit themselves as admirably as the pedestrian script allows. |
| Common Sense MediaCarly KocurekRedemptive drama ready made for family viewing. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellHope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThis is a frustrating film that takes its cutesy title way too literally. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card. |
| The New YorkerSarah KerrForest Whitaker directed with a slow, sugary touch -- and, one suspects, an eye toward the home-video market. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorCloying, unoriginal stuff, rescued -- barely -- by the easy affection that courses between Bullock and Connick Jr., and by the lovely cinematography of Caleb Deschanel. |