Hope Floats

  • Sandra Bullock: Birdee Pruitt
  • Harry Connick Jr.: Justin Matisse
  • Gena Rowlands: Ramona Calvert
  • Mae Whitman: Bernice Pruitt
  • Michael Paré: Bill Pruitt
  • Cameron Finley: Travis
  • Kathy Najimy: Toni Post

A Second Chance (Original Title: Hope Floats ) is a film drama from 1998, directed by Forest Whitaker. The film starred Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr.

Action

The Chicago-based Birdee Pruitt is publicly humiliated when she learns during a talk show on television by her best friend and her husband Bill, that both are in love and have an affair.

With her ​​daughter Bernice she moves to the small town of Smithville, Texas, where she grew up. She lives there with her mother Ramona Calvert, which is also home to the minor son of Birdees sister, because it is professionally in Hollywood at the time.

Birdee meets her old school friend Justin Matisse, whose overtures she fends off first. She gets a job at a photo lab. Matisse and Pruitt come eventually - even through the dome experiments of Birdees mother - closer. As Ramona dies, Bill comes to the funeral. He explains Birdee that he wants a divorce from her travels and later to Chicago to his girlfriend back. Birdee and Justin are a couple.

Reviews

  • Günter H. Jekubzik wrote on filmtabs.de: The largely undemanding romantic tragedy with a happy ending in the U.S. has long been a genre name - we should call them Kleenex and kitchen kitsch. The three " K's " denote the small claim to emancipation in this Mrs films. More important than women's rights are here woman tears that bring more selling movie tickets. Gena Rowlands seems to have specialized in this genre: In " Power of Love" they took care of Julia Roberts in " A light in my heart ", is the same abandoned Marisa Tomei.

Awards

  • Cameron Finley and Mae Whitman in 1998 nominated for the Young Star Award.
  • Cameron Finley was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 1999, won the Mae Whitman.
  • Gena Rowlands and Sandra Bullock won the 1999 Lone Star Film & Television Award.
  • Gena Rowlands and Harry Connick Jr. were nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award in 1999.
  • Forest Whitaker has been nominated for the Acapulco Black Film Festival Award in 1999.
  • The song All I get was nominated for the ALMA Award 1999.
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