This movie is the most worthless piece of garbage to ever be created!!! I was forced to watch this turd of of a movie with a female friend (she loved it and gave it 10 stars), and i wish i could erase my memory of this movie. It is downright terrible, the acting is so bad it makes you cry cause its so cheesy and unprofessional. The music is horrible to listen too (of all the music genres they choose (guess what)? country music!!! LOL! The story is about a woman who found out her hubby cheated don her only to rebuild her life again. Sandra Bullock is not a very good actress, either. The movie runs for 114 minutes too long. Run away from this movie.I give Hope Floats a 1/10.

Was Bill Pruitt totally mad to want to leave Birdee (Sandra Bullock)? I mean, if you're going to make a movie about a cuckolded wife, you can't do it effectively using Sandra as your actress. She is the most desirable woman on the planet - not just in looks but as a genuinely sincere person - not to mention a damn good actress. Heck! I can't look at a woman without comparing her with Sandra (which, I guess, is why I'm single - no one meets the standard!)Even in this movie, I can't help feeling that Birdee has a lot of the real Sandra in her. Even though she is beautiful, she is not conceited or vindictive. Harry Connick Jr. as Justin is equally sensitive and doesn't stalk her, even though he clearly counts his blessings that he has a second chance to have what he was too slow to get the first time. He genuinely woos her in the real old-fashioned way which is quite a pleasant change from most so-called romance movies these days.And Mae Whitman as Birdee's 9-year-old daughter, Bernice shows her to be the star that she has, since Hope Floats was made, become. It always amazes me how young children are able to act so convincingly in traumatic domestic situations such as Bernice had to. Full marks to Mae!Of course, a true queen of the silver screen, Gena Rowlands as Birdee's mum, is everything we have come to expect of her - a tender, all-knowing matriarch who holds everything together.All in all, a fine movie that, in my opinion, is worth more than the 5.8 that viewers have given it. Definitely a movie I will happily watch again, and again over the years.

(Credit IMDb) Birdee Calvert must choose between her morals and her heart after her husband divorces her and a charming young man, who her daughter disapproves of, comes back into her life.Even when Bullock makes the laziest romantic comedies, I usually find plenty to enjoy about them. Hope Floats is one of the very few movies that I don't care for of Bullock's. It lacks laughter, moving moments, and overall enjoyment. The first 40 minutes or so involves nothing but Sandra Bullock moping and feeling sorry for herself. It moved as slow as molasses and I got bored easily. Her character predictably turns around, but the journey isn't worth the reward. I didn't really care about any of the characters, aside from Beatrice. Mae Whitman gives an adorable performance as Bullock's kid, showing plenty of poise and maturity for her age. There is a really weird opening that feels like a Jerry Springer show with how Bullock gets dumped in this movie. Connick Jr. is rather bland as the love interest. I thought he was rather smug myself. Bullock tries, but she isn't enough. This movie is predictable and thoroughly average. If you want a good romantic film from Bullock, check out While You Were Sleeping, Lake House, among others5.1/10

This is not quite "my type of movie" but I am a Sandra Bullock fan so I watch everything of hers. Some RomComs are delightful, some are plain boring, and some like this one are thoughtprovoking and often distressing along the way.8 out of 10 because it's a good story, even if some aspects of it made me angry! I was simply disgusted by the TV show scenes. What filth the TV programme was - bringing someone on under completely false pretences. Birdie believes she's on the show for a nice time - a makeover. Now when she discovered it was instead a setup to insult, hurt and degrade her by her nauseatingly immature and spiteful exhibitionist husband and his current equally immature and spiteful lay, why didn't Birdiee slap her repulsive husband and tell the whole TV audience what she thinks of him for playing this dirty trick? And then demand that makeover she was told she was getting or threaten to sue the TV co. for false pretenses? I think they'd then have either had to agree to her demand - or hurriedly hustle all three protagonists off the stage if Birdie kicked up enough of a fuss.But I suppose she'd find that when she agreed to appear on the programme she signed some legal doc and didn't read some fine print that told her she couldn't complain no matter what the outcome. Now if I saw a clause like that in any contract for appearing on TV, no way would I sign and hadn't she ever seen this TV programme before and realised what it was really like?However, for this story to work, she has to have her confidence smashed and be unable to think what to do when faced with her smirking husband and his vicious bit on the side. It's a feature of some Sandra Bullock movies that I have to say I don't often like though sometimes it works well. In this it's debatable. Do we want the movie to show how Birdee recovers her confidence eventually? Or do we want to see her putting up a spirited defence and shaming the gutless berk she married?Wouldn't the TV people receive mail from people backing Birdee against her ex? Why wasn't this passed on to her? Yes, of course she'd be distraught and after an initial outburst become very depressed. And yes, she may well be so shocked at the time she wouldn't know what to say, as is the case in this story, and it's not easy to be so feisty as I suggest she could have been. But I do seriously wonder at the legal situation raised here.Anyway, the story is as it is, one has to forget one's outrage at such disgusting and spiteful TV filth and get on with the story which is the usual kind of sad stuff for those left behind when a husband commits adultery and makes off blithely with his current fancy. It's clear Daddy didn't really care much at all for his kiddie - all he does is phone a few times. What about visits? Tough if it's a long journey. But perhaps one should be grateful he didn't try to visit in case he also tried to snatch the child. Did he pay alimony? Well, Birdie gets a mediocre job and that's quite amusing even if disappointing she can't get anything better in this back of beyond type town - however, she shows that anything can become better if you make something of it yourself.In the end Birdee wins out and things improve for the daughter who after continually standing up for her vile father and thereby hurting her loving and caring mother deeply, finally discovers in the most hurful way what a file b...... her father is. A sad discovery that would surely damage her a little for life, but her mother gets together with an old flame and all turns out happily. Not a film I'd watch again too enthusiastically because one gets so annoyed with the despicable husband and squeeze getting away with everything. But I'd recommend it to anyone who likes Sandra Bullock to see it at least once. As always she acts superbly. spite of that, I am amazed at some of the carping against this movie. I really wonder if such people have seen the same movie as I have.