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After driving Willy Jack home to Tennessee, she visits Forney at Bowdoin College where she confesses her love for him, and they return to Sequoyah where they marry in a ceremony held in the Walmart, surrounded by their close friends. Cast. Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teen who gets stranded in Sequoyah.
- $15 million
- Mason Daring
- April 28, 2000
Forney Hull : Yes. Novalee Nation : I lied. It wasn't true, I-I love you. It's just I lied because I thought you deserved something better. Forney Hull : Something better than you? Novalee, there isn't anything better than you. [they kiss]
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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.
- Billie Letts
- 368 p. (paperback edition)
- 1995
- August 17, 1995
Novalee Nation : I lied to you, when you asked me if I loved you, and I said no. Remember? Forney Hull : Yes. Novalee Nation : I lied. It wasn't true, I-I love you. It's just I lied because I thought you deserved something better. Forney Hull : Something better than you? Novalee, there isn't anything better than you. [they kiss]
Apr 28, 2000 · Storyline. 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.
- (36K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Matt Williams
- 2000-04-28
1. Is Novalee Nation a contemporary hero? What does she overcome that allows her to succeed? And what in her character or background allows her to be so self-motivated? Also consider other...
Where the Heart Is is a drama-comedy released in 2000, based on a novel by Billie Letts. The story is about a pregnant young girl named Novalee Nation ( Natalie Portman ), who is abandoned in the parking lot of a Walmart by her boyfriend.