Birdee (Sandra Bullock) is an unassuming housewife whose life is disrupted when her husband (Michael Pare) reveals his infidelity to her on a Jerry Springer style television show. She goes home to Texas and her mother and the small Texas town she grew up in where everyone knows of her televised marital collapse. Things only get worse as a family tragedy brings her ex-husband back for an official divorce. Meanwhile an old friend, Justin (Harry Connick Jr.), has entered her life, sparking a romance. While Justin's intentions are clear and good, Birdee struggles with the decision to let him fully into her life.
Hope Floats was filmed in Smithville, Texas. The home in the movie is at 201 E. Eighth. 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.
If you are a Texan you will enjoy this movie for at least one reason: it is one of the greatest pictures of Texas culture ever portrayed on screen - the accents, the diction, the interactions, the setting, and heart of the characters captures what Texans are.
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