Where the Heart Is (2000)

	James Berardinelli - ReelViews
	Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
	Jane Sumner - Dallas Morning News
	Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
	Robert Horton - Film.com
	Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
	John Hartl - Seattle Times
	Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
	Peter Stack - SF Chronicle
	Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
	Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
	Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
	Jeff Vice - Deseret News
	Jay Carr - Boston Globe
	Elvis Mitchell - NY Times

“[Q]uality, emotionally-satisfying entertainment”

- James Berardinelli

“If Wal-Mart stocked merchandise this shoddy, the Federal Trade Commission would shut it down faster than this movie extorts tears and murmurs of 'Aww . . . . '”

- Elvis Mitchell

Where the Heart Is

Based on a novel by Billie Letts, a pregnant 17-year-old (Natalie Portman) abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart makes a new life for herself in rural Oklahoma. Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, James Frain, Joan Cusack, Dylan Bruno, Sally Field, Keith David, Richard Jones, Mackenzie Fitzgerald. Director: Matt Williams (2000, PG-13)

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