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Cast

Sandra Bullock
as Birdee Pruitt

Harry Connick Jr.
as Justin Matisse

Gena Rowlands
as Ramona Calvert

Mae Whitman
as Bernice Pruitt

Michael Paré
as Bill Pruitt

Cameron Finley
as Travis

Kathy Najimy
as Toni Post

Bill Cobbs
as Nurse

Connie Ray
as Bobbi-Claire

Rosanna Arquette
as Connie

Mona Lee Fultz
as Teacher

Sydney Berry
as Orange Julia

Rachel Lena Snow
as Big Dolores

Christina Stojanovich
as Kristen

Allisa Alban
as Debbie Reissen

Dee Hennigan
as Dot

Martha Long
as Waitress

Norman Bennett
as Mr. Davis

James N. Harrell
as Harry Calvert

Chris Drewy
as P.E. Teacher

Meason Wiley
as Young Man at Dance

Tisa Hibbs
as Suzy

Art Michael Tamez
as Bartender

Jeanette Sieh
as Volleyball Captain

Tara Price
as Young Birdee

Richard Nance
as Priest

Becca Leigh Gellman
as Student #1

Pilar Walsh
as Talk Show Producer

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Critic Reviews for Hope Floats

Audience Reviews for Hope Floats

• May 17, 2011

  Good movie! A little underrated in my opinion, but it's mostly because not too many have seen it. I definitely recommend it! I used to live in Smithville, TX, where the movie was filmed, so I've always liked this film. It's nothing spectacular, but it's worth while. Also, this is one of Sandra Bullock's earlier films, so it's nice seeing where she's come from.
  Jameson W Super Reviewer
• Aug 08, 2010

  An airy, nothing kind of film, which is always trying to be more than it is. You go in thinking itâ(TM)s some flouncy Sandra Bullock vehicle, where she can be her goofy self while falling in love with the handsomest of men on the planet. Instead of being a romantic comedy it's more of a character study of a bereaved woman who is ridiculed and belittled after suffering public embarrassment. The beginning, when we're first introduced to Birdee, a divorced single mother who moves home after being humiliated by her husband and his lover, itâ(TM)s actually quite moving and sweet. Though the daughter is an intimate character, and a look into the true psychological faculties of a girl her age, the rest of the family and the husband are ridiculous caricatures. Watching the daughter and wife interact, it was hinted that the husband was this deeply flawed character, but he has all the parameters of some nothing villain. Gena Rowlands is a hard hearted eccentric who's only there to thrust Bullock's struggles to the surface. Though I enjoyed what she brought to the film as a character, using her as a plot point further on was despicable. The other kid, a boy who likes to act as things, didn't have enough backstory with his no good mother to render a specific response except distaste. Though his antics and tendency to keep silent were perfectly odd and childlike, I would have liked to see a broader side of him. The movie altogether is schmaltz. What she has to overcome and the way she does it is small stuff, an amalgamation of every other drama of this genre, or of that decade. There is so much someone can do with the breakup of a marriage, but they looked solely on the aftermath though that's not what the movie was trying to accomplish. Look at Blue Valentine and tell me it's hard to make a film that's complex but relates to an ordinary occurrence.
  Spencer S Super Reviewer
• Nov 30, 2009

  oh dear... oh dear.... oh dear,... well.... welll.... well, oh dear...well it's fucking shit! erm... why? why????? why????????????????? being a major fan of sandra bullock can't take away the fact that hope floats bites. best performances came from gena rowlands and mae whitman. it only gets watchable towards the end and then not by much of a margin either
  Sanity Assassin ! Super Reviewer
• Oct 23, 2009

  Pretty good chick flick
  Brody M Super Reviewer

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