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RosAzzo

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A really good movie.. it's not nice to find out that your husband is having an affair on you on television and especially on television. Her mum is always on her usual mission match making hehe. She did not let go of Bill altough he gave her the...
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A really good movie.. it's not nice to find out that your husband is having an affair on you on television and especially on television. Her mum is always on her usual mission match making hehe. She did not let go of Bill altough he gave her the boot. Her daughter could not accept it.. Justin is a great guy who is always waiting for Birdie. Her mum always offers words of advice. Her daughter was really tough on her sometimes and blamed her mum for her leaving... Grandma was so sweet, always there with her words of wisdom.. It was sad to see him leave her behind.. And it was more sad when the grandma died. It was sweet seeing Justin by the truck and he was cute too hehe. 'Okay Mama, Stop pushing' I like that one hehe...shows that altough mum was not with her she was helping her out hehe... I enjoyed the ending as well especially the song that the movie ended with... Great movie 2 thumbs up...

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Posted jun 16, 2007 11:33 pm pt

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whta a grat movie will make you laugh cry and tuly enjoy this film over and over sandra is so great in this film

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Posted may 8, 2007 12:50 am pt

amauriel

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"Hope Floats" was truly just a so-so romantic dramedy. This film seemed right up Sandra Bullock's alley, but, in my opinion, she just didn't deliver in this film.

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Posted mar 13, 2007 11:12 pm pt

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Good movie, nothing very boring and though I am not really into romance comedies, I must say that this movie was nothing boring and it was very intersting into a different ways that I actually like it. It was certainly good, starring Sandra...
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Good movie, nothing very boring and though I am not really into romance comedies, I must say that this movie was nothing boring and it was very intersting into a different ways that I actually like it. It was certainly good, starring Sandra Bullock, I really like the movie it was very interesting.

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Posted mar 12, 2007 8:42 am pt

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Being dumped is never easy, and watching Birdee (Sandra Bullock) pick up the pieces and get on with her life is a journey I was happy to take. Watching people find their happiness is always a great watch, and Sandra does it well.

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Posted feb 3, 2007 8:01 am pt

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Sandra captivates us in this film. Playing Birdee Pruitt she is comic, loved, hated, pitied, and befriended. She goes through many changes in her life and we see how she handles each one.An excellent movie with some very nice eye candy in Harry...
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Sandra captivates us in this film. Playing Birdee Pruitt she is comic, loved, hated, pitied, and befriended. She goes through many changes in her life and we see how she handles each one.An excellent movie with some very nice eye candy in Harry Connick Jr.

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Posted dec 29, 2006 5:56 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  75
  The ordinariness of the material gives way to the winning personalities of the stars.

  by Barbara Shulgasser | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  A sharper edge could have taken a pretty good, if uneven, picture to greater heights, considering its potent ingredients and actors.

  by Kevin Thomas | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Bullock, Rowlands, Whitman, and others in the cast -- most notably Harry Connick Jr. -- acquit themselves as admirably as the pedestrian script allows.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  This is a frustrating film that takes its cutesy title way too literally.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  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.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  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 | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  The story is slow and corny, but Whitaker gives commendable dignity to his everyday characters, and the acting is emotionally strong as long as the male romantic interest (Connick) isn't around.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  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 | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  50
  Forest Whitaker directed with a slow, sugary touch -- and, one suspects, an eye toward the home-video market.

  by Sarah Kerr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  50
  A turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  42
  The pond is so shallow in this wan romance that there's no room for anything to float.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  40
  Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  40
  Hope doesn't float in this film so much as it rises to the surface and then stagnates.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  40
  Hope may float, but this bore flounders beyond salvaging.

  by Angie Errigo | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  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 | Read Full Review »