Hope Floats Review

In Hope Floats Birdee Pruitt, Sandra Bullock, is humiliated before the whole world when, on one of those ghastly daytime tv shows the Americans seem to love, her best friend - an uncredited Rosanna Arquette - reveals she`s been having an affair with Birdee`s husband, Michael Pare. With her life in tatters, Birdee heads off, with her young daughter, Bernice, Mae Whitman, for her hometown in rural Texas, where her mother, Ramona, Gena Rowlands, proves to be something of a local eccentric and where her highschool boyfriend, Justin Matisse, Harry Connick Jr., is, mercifully, still available...Whatever possibilities for entertainment or enlightenment - or emotional engagement - there might have been in this very slender story are quickly dashed by Steven Rogers` uninteresting screenplay, Sandra Bullock`s dull, mannered performance, and Forest Whitaker`s lumbering, painfully slow direction. Not much at all happens during the almost two hours running time; Birdee suffers and then recovers enough to start seeing Justin again; her husband turns up; Bernice bonds with Grandma. I`m afraid I found none of this the least bit interesting.