Hope Floats

Name: Hope Floats
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: May 29, 1998
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Sandra Bullock

1998

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: May 29, 1998 | PG-13

Starring: Harry Connick Jr., Sandra Bullock

Summary: Birdee Calvert (Bullock) seems to have it all. She's been married for years to her handsome high school sweetheart Bill and has a brilliant and sensitive child. But when her picture perfect life comes crashing down around her, Birdee must start over. With no place else to turn, the former beauty queen heads back home...to Smithville, Texas.Birdee Calvert (Bullock) seems to have it all. She's been married for years to her handsome high school sweetheart Bill and has a brilliant and sensitive child. But when her picture perfect life comes crashing down around her, Birdee must start over. With no place else to turn, the former beauty queen heads back home...to Smithville, Texas. (Fox)
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Director: Forest Whitaker

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 114 min

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Barbara Shulgasser

The ordinariness of the material gives way to the winning personalities of the stars. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Bullock, Rowlands, Whitman, and others in the cast -- most notably Harry Connick Jr. -- acquit themselves as admirably as the pedestrian script allows. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun. Read full review

David Sterritt

The story is slow and corny, but Whitaker gives commendable dignity to his everyday characters, and the acting is emotionally strong as long as the male romantic interest (Connick) isn't around. Read full review

Rita Kempley

Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Hope doesn't float in this film so much as it rises to the surface and then stagnates. Read full review

Dallas Observer Andy Klein

Hope Floats comes lumbering along, scourging all in its path with saccharine sentimentality and bogus emotions. Read full review

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HarleyF.

Nov 12, 2007

Me and my family loved the movie they did a great job.

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