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Video Review: 'Where the Heart Is' (2012)

Reviewed by Alice King | Sep 29, 2000
EW's GRADE
C-

Details Movie Rateds: PG-13, R; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; With: Dabney Coleman, Ashley Judd, Natalie Portman and Uma Thurman; Distributor: Wind Dancer Productions

Do folks from places like Oklahoma ever get fed up with being portrayed as trailer-dwelling, white-trash kooks with names like Sister Husband and Praline? The cliché-fest Where the Heart Is, about a girl who gives birth in a Wal-Mart, manages to squander its fine cast (Sally Field! Stockard Channing!) in another tired Hollywood meditation on ''quirkiness.'' C-

Originally posted Sep 29, 2000 Published in issue #561 Sep 29, 2000 Order article reprints
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