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42 out of 100

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8.0 out of 10

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  • Starring: Harry Connick Jr., Sandra Bullock
  • Summary: Birdee Calvert (Bullock) seems to have it all. She's been married for years to her handsome high school sweetheart Bill and has a brilliant and sensitive child. But when her picture perfect life comes crashing down around her, Birdee must start over. With no place else to turn, the former beauty queen heads back home...to Smithville, Texas.  (Fox) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 19
  3. Negative: 4 out of 19
  1. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    75
    The ordinariness of the material gives way to the winning personalities of the stars.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    60
    Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    30
    If there's one thing more heartbreaking than a crying child, it's a crying child wearing thick glasses, an image exploited numerous times throughout the course of the dull, uninvolving, tissue-thin Hope Floats.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. HarleyF.
    10
    Me and my family loved the movie they did a great job.
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