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Apr 28, 2000 · Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) is a pregnant seventeen-year-old from Tennessee heading to California with her boyfriend Willie Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), but is abandoned by him at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
Where the Heart Is follows the lives of Novalee Nation, Willy Jack Picken, and their daughter Americus Nation for a period of seven years in the 1980s and early 1990s. Above all, the book dramatizes in detail the tribulations of lower-income and foster children in the United States.
Novalee Nation : You tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take... and tell 'em to hold on like hell to what they've got: each other, and a mother who would die for them and almost did... You tell them we've all got meanness in us, but we've got goodness too.
Apr 28, 2000 · The movie is based on a popular novel by Billie Letts, about a 17-year-old unwed mother named Novalee Nation ( Natalie Portman ), who is abandoned by her no-good boyfriend in a Wal-Mart in Sequoia, Okla., and lives secretly in the store until she gives birth to her child, little Americus.
Jun 2, 2023 · 20th Century Fox. Based on the novel of the same name, the 2000's Where the Heart Is tells the story of 17-year-old Novalee Nation. After being abandoned at a Walmart in a small Oklahoma town...
Where The Heart Is. Buy or rent. PG-13. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 1.8K. Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman), 17 and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home.
Apr 27, 2000 · Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life ...
