Where The Heart Is

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ashley Judd	Lexie Coop
Natalie Portman	Novalee Nation
Stockard Channing	Thelma Husband
Joan Cusack	Ruth Meyers
James Frain	Forney Hull
Dylan Bruno	Willy Jack Pickens
Ray Prewitt	Tim
Laura House	Nicki
Sally Field	Mama Lil
Keith David	Moses Whitecotten
Karey Green	Rhonda

Director	Matt Williams; Matt Williams (II)
Producer	Susan Cartsonis; Matt Williams; Carmen Finestra
Writer	Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel; Billie Letts
Cinematography	Richard Greatrex
Musician	Mason Daring

The story revolves around a young teenage girl Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) whose destiny plays a very ugly game with her. At the age of seventeen she is pregnant with a child and adds to the worse condition her boyfriend Willy Jack (Dylan Bruno) ditches her in a Wal Mart store and leaves her all alone. She feels miserable as she is left with no money and no family. Her only family and hope was her boyfriend. She ultimately hides in the store and survives with the store food. Finally after six weeks she gives birth to a baby. Soon they become famous. The story progresses as she encounters new women Thelma (Stockard Channing) and Lexie Coop (Ashley Judd) and learns different aspects of life. She finally comes out in life as a more confident woman both personally and professionally.