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Hope Floats

Year:
Duration:
114 min
Genres:
Drama | Romance
IMDB rate:
5.8
Director:
Forest Whitaker
Awards:
3 wins & 7 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1998-05-29
Filming Locations: 201 E. Eighth St. Smithville, Texas USA
Earnings
Budget: $30,000,000
Opening Weekend: $14,210,464 (USA) (31 May 1998)
Gross: $60,033,780 (USA) (11 October 1998)
Cast
Actor
Character
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
Bill Cobbs
Nurse
Connie Ray
Bobbi-Claire
Mona Lee Fultz
Teacher
Sydney Berry
Orange Julia
Rachel Snow
Big Dolores
Christina Stojanovich
Kristen
Alissa Alban
Debbie Reissen (as Allisa Alban)
Dee Hennigan
Dot
Martha Long
Waitress
Norman Bennett
Mr. Davis
James N. Harrell
Harry Calvert
Chris Drewy
P.E. Teacher
Meason Wiley
Young Man At Dance
Tisa Hibbs
Suzy
Art Tamez
Bartender (as Art Michael Tamez)
Jeanette Sieh
Volleyball Captain
Tara Price
Young Birdee
Richard Nance
Priest
Rosanna Arquette
Connie Phillips (uncredited)
Becca Leigh Gellman
Student #1 (uncredited)
Richard Phillips
Country Western Dancer (uncredited)
Angela Rambourg
Toni Post Intro Montage Interviewee (uncredited)
Mark Rickard
Audience Member (uncredited)
Pilar Walsh
Talk-Show Producer (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The film was choreographed by Patsy Swayze.
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At the beginning of the film, when Birdee and Bernice are leaving Chicago to stay with her mother in Texas, the two are driving on a freeway. They pass a bus with a billboard on the side advertising for the television show Birdie was just dumped on. The billboard reads: "Toni: She'll change your life!"
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Gena Rowlands, Washington-Lee High Class of 1947, plays mother of Sandra Bullock, Washington-Lee High Class of 1982.
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Goofs
When Birdee first visits her father at the retirement home.
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When Bernice walks into the classroom, the teacher is going over grammar sentences and correcting them. When Bernice walks back to the back of the classroom, the girl sitting next to her is holding a science book.
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When Birdie goes to the school to drop off Bernice's lunch, Chris (the school employee) alternates between facing Birdie and facing Bernice between shots.
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Quotes
Birdee Pruitt: [Travis growls in his act as a dog when ordered to go to breakfast] Better do what she says, Travis. Grandma stuffs little dogs.
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Bernice Pruitt: Please don't have a talk with her mother. I'd rather die.
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Ramona Calvert: Look at me. My life has no meaning or direction, and I'm happy.
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