Taglines: When life fell apart, love fell into place.
Hope Floats movie storyline. Birdee Calvert-Pruitt is back in her hometown of Smithville, Texas, after discovering that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. The entire town knows what happened to flawless beauty Birdee since Connie let her know about the affair on a national talk show.
Back in town, she’s dealing with catty old friends and acquaintances from high school who can’t help rubbing it in her face that she isn’t as perfect as she thought while still trying to get back on her feet with her daughter, Bernice. Deeply depressed, she runs into an old friend, Justin Matisse, who tries to help her through, but is still in love with her. Birdee must make a new life for her and her daughter, but will Justin be able to be part of it?
Hope Floats is a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Forest Whitaker and starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Paré, Cameron Finley, Kathy Najimy, Connie Ray, Mona Lee Fultz and Rachel Snow.
Hope Floats was filmed in Smithville, Texas. The home in the movie is the McCollum-Chapman-Trousdale House, built in the Neoclassical style in 1908. The elementary school in the movie is a 1924 high school building. The church used was Saints Peter and Paul Church in Kovar, TX, about 6 miles from Smithville. The church was built in 1921. The film was choreographed by Patsy Swayze.
The film’s soundtrack was released in 1998 under the production of Don Was. The album included the works of artists such as Garth Brooks, the Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, and Sheryl Crow. One of the singles, Brooks’ “To Make You Feel My Love”, was a Number One single on the Billboard country singles charts in August 1998 and also a Grammy Award nominee in 1999 for Male Country Vocal performance.
Hope Floats (1998)
Directed by: Forest Whitaker
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Paré, Cameron Finley, Kathy Najimy, Connie Ray, Mona Lee Fultz, Rachel Snow
Screenplay by: Steven Rogers
Production Design by: Larry Fulton, William Lakoff
Cinematography by: Caleb Deschanel
Film Editing by: Richard Chew
Costume Design by: Susie DeSanto
Set Decoration by: Douglas A. Mowat
Art Direction by: Christa Munro
Music by: Dave Grusin
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 29, 1998
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