Director: Matt Williams

Writers: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel

From novel: Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Music by: Mason Daring

Producers: Matt Williams; Susan Cartsonis; David McFadzean; Patricia Whitcher

Keywords: Drama, Comedy, Wal-Mart

Film adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name follows a pregnant young woman's struggles with putting her life back together when her boyfriend abandons her at a Walmart.

ABSTRACT
Novalee Nation, a pregnant seventeen year old woman traveling from Tennessee to Oklahoma with boyfriend Willie Jack, is abandoned and left to fend for herself at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Alone with nothing to her name but the clothes on her back and $5.55 in her pocket, Novalee squats in the Walmart for six weeks until her daughter is born, moving to rebuild her life with the help of kindhearted quirky Sequoyah locals.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Dylan Bruno	Actor	6-Sep-1972		Colby Granger on Numb3rs
Stockard Channing	Actor	13-Feb-1944		The First Lady on The West Wing
Joan Cusack	Actor	11-Oct-1962		Grosse Pointe Blank
Keith David	Actor	4-Jun-1956		DCI in Agent Cody Banks
Sally Field	Actor	6-Nov-1946		Steel Magnolias
James Frain	Actor	14-Mar-1968		Sunshine
Ashley Judd	Actor	19-Apr-1968		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Cody Linley	Actor	20-Nov-1989		Jake Ryan on Hannah Montana
Natalie Portman	Actor	9-Jun-1981		Black Swan

CAST

Natalie Portman	...   Novalee Nation
Ashley Judd	...   Lexie Coop
Stockard Channing	...   Sister Husband
Joan Cusack	...   Ruth Meyers
James Frain	...   Forney Hull
Dylan Bruno	...   Willy Jack Pickens
Keith David	...   Moses Whitecotten
Ray Prewitt	...   Tim
Laura House	...   Nicki
Karey Green	...   Rhonda
Mary Ashleigh Green	...   Girl in Bathroom
Kinna McInroe	...   Wal-Mart Clerk
Laura Auldridge	...   Wal-Mart Assistant Manager
Alicia Godwin	...   Jolene
Dennis Letts	...   Sheriff
Richard Jones	...   Mr. Sprock
Kathryn Esquivel	...   Mrs. Ortiz
Mark Mathis	...   Reporter
John Daniel Evermore	...   Orderly
Sally Field	...   Mama Lil
Linda Wakeman	...   Hospital Receptionist
David Alvarado	...   Cellmate
Mark Voges	...   Religious Man
Angee Hughes	...   Religious Woman
Todd Lowe	...   Troy
Margaret Ann Hoard	...   Mary Elizabeth Hull
Rodger Boyce	...   Officer Harry
Gabriel Folse	...   Policeman #2
Mackenzie Fitzgerald	...   Americus
Natalie Pena	...   Angela Ortiz
Yvette Diaz	...   Rosanna Ortiz
T. J. McFarland	...   Ray
Richard Nance	...   Johnny DeSoto
Tony Mann	...   M.C. of Banquet
John Swasey	...   Jerry
Scarlett McAlister	...   Kitty
Kylie Harmon	...   Praline
Cody Linley	...   Brownie
Bob Coonrod	...   Ernie
Heather Kafka	...   Delphia
Angelina Fiordellisi	...   Nurse
Cheyenne Rushing	...   Co-Ed

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