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Release Date: 14 January, 2003 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.98 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Hope Floats Reviews
Horrifically Charming
I really shouldn't like this movie but I do. However, I gave it four stars SOLELY because of the acting and soundtrack. Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. were fantastic to watch and the music was a delight to listen to if you like pop-country. If the director had casted any other actors for the roles, it definitely would have flopped. Bullock and Connick have such an irrisistable charm about them that you can't help but love to watch them act. On the other hand, albeit a wonderful actress, Bullock's daughter in this movie was so irritating and unlikeable she spoiled the magic of the moment for me. I cringed every time she opened her mouth. I could see why her father didn't want her (just kidding...not really). If I had been like her growing up my father would have driven off leaving me on the side of a road too. The only redeeming aspect of the daughter's role was to show how difficult a divorce is on a child but how a mother's love will get them through it. In spite of being bombarded with insults and rejection (annoyingly throughout the ENTIRE movie), it showed that a mother will always love and support her children no matter what. Sorry fathers, the movie didn't portray you very well.
On a sour note, this movie lacked direction, character development, continuity, and any kind of substantial plot to follow. Viewers are just along for the ride without any clue what one scene had to do with another. Characters and scenes are thrown together with no rhyme or reason--seemingly, just to move the movie along to the end. I found myself saying, "Huh?" a lot to aspects of the story that just didn't make sense. Perhaps I blinked and missed something that provided a rational explanation.
There aren't enough bad things to say about the horrific direction of this movie. It is supposed to be a love story but all we see of the true romance is in the few remaining minutes of the movie. In the meantime we are delighted with a movie in which there are few connections--at least not until the very end. Forget this bein a "love" story; it is more like a "reject" story: husband rejects wife; daughter rejects mother; father rejects daughter; woman rejects man; town rejects man; town rejects woman; daughter rejects man, mother rejects son, etc.... With all this rejecting going on it's no wonder that the actual love part doesn't come out until the very end.
Forrest Whitaker ought to be ashamed of himself for dropping the ball on this one. Although to be fair, I understand that due to budget issues, production was drastically cut short, several key scenes weren't filmed causing the ending to be changed. Bullock believed in the movie so much that she put some of her own money into keeping the movie from being scrapped.
In spite of itself, this movie is as charming as it is horrifically directed. For some reason (i.e., Bullock and Connick) it works. I have watched this movie many times over and never tire of it. If you can suspend the movie critic within you and overlook the glaringly obvious megaholes in the storyline; and instead, sit back and enjoy the sweet simplicity of this movie, you'll enjoy it too. Although it's a 155-minute bumby ride during, the 2-minute heartfelt emotional ending will definitely leave you emotionally fulfilled.
You Will Float From Crying
Hope Floats has a lot of sadness, but also a lot of humor and warmth. It has too much drama to be put in the romance genre. Sandra Bullock should have gotten an Oscar for her portrayal as Birdie, a former prom queen from a small Texas town whose marriage falls apart on national television. Her range and depth of emotion are phenomenal. Her young daughter is also an astonishing actress. One scene in the film with her will absolutely break your heart.
Birdie returns to Texas to live with her mother and deal with the aftermath. Her daughter Beatrice blames Birdie for her father leaving. Birdie's old friend (Harry Connick Jr.) tries to coax her out of her depression and into a state where she can find some hope. Birdie's mother is raising her grandson.
My husband even liked this movie, and pronounced it "good." Pretty good for what I thought would be a chick flick.
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