Hope Floats (Blu-ray) PG-13
When life fell apart, love fell into place.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 4, 2011
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Harry Connick, Jr. & Sandra Bullock | |
Performer: | Gena Rowlands | |
Directed by | Forest Whitaker | |
Edited by | Richard Chew | |
Screenwriting by | Steve Rogers | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
Produced by | Lynda Obst | |
Director of Photography: | Caleb Deschanel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
The plot of this tear-jerker is a little heavy-handed, and so is the directing by Forest Whitaker.
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Film Quips Online
...A clutch of gemlike performances....[Whitaker] directs with sensitive, artful touches...and Caleb Deschanel's camerawork is pure poetry...
USA Today
Rating: 1.5/4 --
At times heartwarming home-town kitsch, at other times predictable puppy-love pablum for the young and recently separated, Hope Floats... but just barely.
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Nitrate Online
Rating: 2/4 --
This material could obviously lead in a lot of different directions. It seems most promising as comedy or satire, but no: Hope Floats is a turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: D- --
... just horrible, horrible, horrible.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Rating: 3/5 --
Redemptive drama ready made for family viewing.
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Common Sense Media
...Painfully honest moments....Bullock stretches her acting muscles...
Premiere
Product Description:
Birdee (Sandra Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity to her on a Jerry Springer-style talk show. She goes home to her mother and the small town in which she grew up--where, of course, everyone knows about her televised marital collapse. Things only get worse as a family tragedy brings her ex-husband back for an official divorce. Meanwhile an old friend, Justin (Harry Connick Jr.), has entered her life, sparking a romance. While Justin's intentions are good, Birdee struggles with the decision to let him fully into her life. This 1998 sleeper was a pet project of leading actress Bullock and became a surprise hit, touching the hearts of its viewers.