![]() ![]() (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). JOAN CUSACK plays a surly, small-time record producer who helps Willy Jack's career, drinks and uses strong profanity.Ĭurious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit?.He also uses some profanity and later becomes addicted to booze/pills after his music career fails. DYLAN BRUNO plays Novalee's white trash boyfriend who leaves her, pregnant and practically broke, in a small town where she knows no one.JAMES FRAIN plays the local librarian who dropped out of college to care for his debilitated sister and eventually falls for Novalee (and beds her).STOCKARD CHANNING plays a religious woman who takes in Novalee, helps raise her daughter, and always asks forgiveness from God for "fornicating" with Mr.ASHLEY JUDD plays a nurse who befriends Novalee, perhaps just because she's an older version of the teen (shacking up with the wrong guys and getting pregnant).After delivering her child, she later worries about being pregnant again, later sleeps with another man (years later), but does finally get her life together to some degree. NATALIE PORTMAN plays a poor and pregnant teenager who secretly lives in a Wal-Mart after being abandoned there by her boyfriend.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 For intense thematic material, language, and sexual content. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Those who are fans of the original novel or of someone in the cast just might, but it doesn't otherwise seem that many kids will be flocking to see this one. After Novalee's mother (SALLY FIELD) takes off with the money she received from Wal-Mart and others, the young mother moves in with Sister Husband, gets a job at Wal-Mart and starts to rebuild her life.Īs Willy Jack pursues a singer/songwriter career with musical agent Ruth Meyers (JOAN CUSACK), Novalee must contend with the various hardships, joy and even love that life throws her way. Six weeks later, Novalee eventually gives birth to a daughter she names Americus, and soon meets hospital nurse Lexie Coop (ASHLEY JUDD), a woman who's no stranger to being a single mother herself. She also meets Moses Whitecotten (KEITH DAVID), a local photographer, as well as Forney Hull (JAMES FRAIN), a young man who dropped out of college to care for his alcoholic sister, Mary Elizabeth (MARGARET ANN HOARD), and run the local library. During the days, she meets Sister Husband (STOCKARD CHANNING), a recovering alcoholic who mistakes her for someone else and asks daily forgiveness for fornicating with her boyfriend, Mr. Stopping at an Oklahoma Wal-Mart for a bathroom break, Novalee then returns to the parking lot only to find that Willy Jack has abandoned her there.īroke, increasingly pregnant and with nowhere to go, Novalee covertly spends the nights at the Wal-Mart. PLOT: Novalee Nation (NATALIE PORTMAN) is a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl who's leaving Tennessee with her white trash musician of a boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens (DYLAN BRUNO), en route to California. ![]() ![]() QUICK TAKE: Drama: Over a span of several years, a poor teenager tries to find happiness and love in the small town where she gave birth to her fatherless daughter in the local Wal-Mart. (2000) (Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd) (PG-13)
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