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| | Where the Heart Is (2000): Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, James Frain, Stockard Channing - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | While this may seem a catastrophe on its surface she has no money, no family to speak of, and obviously nowhere to go you know it isn't because, as you've intuited from these first few scenes (and the few hundred scenes from other movies that they resemble), Novalee is always right and righteous. |
 | | Where the Heart Is is all about Novalee's righteousness and rightness, in every sense (even if her taste in partners seems a bit suspect just now). |
 | | Television understood as code for superficiality is a disappointingly appropriate model for Where the Heart Is, as it projects a broad and bland "demographic" for its audience, the lowest-common-denominator kind that TV programmers are rumored to imagine. |
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