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  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 54 m

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, Tex...

Directed By: Forest Whitaker

Written By: Steven Rogers

  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 54 m

Hope Floats

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
43
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.8
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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, Tex...

Directed By: Forest Whitaker

Written By: Steven Rogers

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
43
21% Positive
4 Reviews
58% Mixed
11 Reviews
21% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
43
21% Positive
4 Reviews
58% Mixed
11 Reviews
21% Negative
4 Reviews

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75
The ordinariness of the material gives way to the winning personalities of the stars.
By Barbara Shulgasser FULL REVIEW
63
This is a frustrating film that takes its cutesy title way too literally.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
50
An insipid, stillborn drama that drags its viewers through a ghetto of despair before finally, unexpectedly plopping them down in the midst of a happy ending.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
50
Cloying, unoriginal stuff, rescued -- barely -- by the easy affection that courses between Bullock and Connick Jr., and by the lovely cinematography of Caleb Deschanel.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
40
Director Forest Whitaker, who appears to have been typed as a female-friendly director in the wake of "Waitinh to Exhale's" runaway success, drags out the already painfully slow proceedings with syrupy dissolves, slo-mo sequences and redundant flashbacks, underscoring it all with an intrusively obvious country soundtrack that matches lyrics to emotions with cringe-inducing exactness.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
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.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
20
Hope Floats comes lumbering along, scourging all in its path with saccharine sentimentality and bogus emotions.
By Andy Klein FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.8
58% Positive
7 Ratings
25% Mixed
3 Ratings
17% Negative
2 Ratings

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.8
58% Positive
7 Ratings
25% Mixed
3 Ratings
17% Negative
2 Ratings

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Production Company Twentieth Century Fox, Fortis Films
Release Date May 29, 1998
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline When life fell apart, love fell into place.
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Awards

Lone Star Film & Television Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
YoungStar Awards
• 2 Nominations

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