Hope Floats (1998)

When I saw that Forest directed a movie with Sandra Bullock playing the main role, I couldn't hold back.Even if Sandra tried to keep my interest with her acting, so did the little kid - had very good performance- I couldn't watch the movie for more than 40 minutes because it was such a terrible boring story with a really slow rhythm. I waited so much to see that something new and exciting happens but none. I cannot believe that Sandra accepted a role like this, I think it was for her friendship with the great Forest. Very good photography!

This movie is the most worthless piece of garbage to ever be created!!! I was forced to watch this turd of of a movie with a female friend (she loved it and gave it 10 stars), and i wish i could erase my memory of this movie. It is downright terrible, the acting is so bad it makes you cry cause its so cheesy and unprofessional. The music is horrible to listen too (of all the music genres they choose (guess what)? country music!!! LOL! The story is about a woman who found out her hubby cheated don her only to rebuild her life again. Sandra Bullock is not a very good actress, either. The movie runs for 114 minutes too long. Run away from this movie.I give Hope Floats a 1/10.

I'll admit from the off, I love Sandra Bullock. With her gorgeous girl next door looks, I adore her, and will usually give anything she is in a chance. she remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply. Any movie becomes promising just by having her name in it's cast.Plot In A Paragraph: Birdee Pruitt (Bullock) is an housewife whose life is turned upside when her husband Bill (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity (with her best friend Connie) to her on a talk show. She goes to live with her mother (Rowlands) in the small town in which she grew up, where everyone knows of her television appearance. It's not long before an old friend, Justin (Connick, Jr.), has entered her life, sparking a potential romance.The film was choreographed by Patsy Swayze. Harry Connick, Jr. Is OK (if a little bland) as Justin Whilst Kathy Najimy has a small role as Talk Show host Toni Post as does Rosanna Arquette as Connie and Bill Cobbs also pops up as a Nurse. As for Sandra Bullock she is as watchable as always, but these are not ninety of her better minutes.

Released in 1998, "Hope Floats" is a likable drama about Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) who flees with her daughter (Mae Whitman) back to her small home town in Texas to live in her mother's mansion while her father is in a nursing home (Gene Rowlands plays the mother). Birdee is disillusioned because her husband (Michael Paré) left her for her best friend in Chicago. Both she and her daughter have to come to grips with what's happened while a cowboy carpenter takes interest in Birdee (Harry Connick Jr.). A peripheral issue is that Birdee was the beloved prom queen in high school and her husband the popular quarterback.I was expecting a great drama with "Hope Floats" but it wasn't to be. The film was directed by amiable Forest Whitaker (Cuffey in "North & South") and written by Steven Rogers. There's nothing wrong with the cast, soundtrack, direction or locations; the problem lies with the screenplay. It's just too by-the-numbers. I'd give obvious examples but I don't want to give away the story for those who haven't seen it, although I wouldn't actually be giving anything away because the script's so predictable.Nevertheless, it's worth checking out for those who like dramas, the cast and country music. It was a mild hit at the box office in 1998.The film runs 114 minutes and was shot in Smithville, La Grange and Austin, Texas, with opening scenes in Chicago.GRADE: C