Can we please talk about this batshit crazy movie? I love it, it’s so bizarre it could almost count as abstract comedy. Natalie Portman plays a pregnant woman named Novalee Nation who gets abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart during a road trip. She ends up living there and even giving birth there! Stockard Channing plays a woman named Sister Husband! There’s an autistic genius librarian named Forney! Joan Cusack plays Portman’s ex-boyfriend’s agent after he becomes a country star once he gets out of prison! Ashley Judd plays a woman who named her children after desserts! There’s a twister for no reason! What the fuck is going on!!!!!
Almost forgot, she gets told by Keith David, who is working as a One Hour Photo guy at the Walmart she gives birth in, to name her baby a name that means something. So she names it Americus. Why don’t people talk about this movie more? It’s so odd and unintentionally hilarious.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 21, 2019 3:16 AM |
She lives in the Walmart?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 21, 2019 3:24 AM |
R2 Yes, she lives in the Walmart. She bums around the store until closing time, when she goes to hide out in the bathrooms (I never understood how she got away with that, do the employees not check the bathrooms or at least clean them before they leave for the day?) and comes out once everyone’s gone. She sets up a little bed in the camping section and basically just uses all the supplies you can buy at Walmart to live her life, stealing them but writing all of them down in an “i owe you” book so that she can pay Walmart back for everything one day. Bizarre film.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 21, 2019 3:27 AM |
Is this the one where she falls in love with some local yokel named Furney or Furley or something? Also, didn't she make a similar movie with Susan Sarandon?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 21, 2019 3:30 AM |
That's him! I thought he was kinda cute.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 21, 2019 5:23 AM |
It was based on a very popular bestseller.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 21, 2019 5:34 AM |
I still have this movie on DVD. Seeing Sally Field as a blonde was weird. And Joan Cusack was great as Willy's ball busting music manager.
Anywhere But Here is good too. Susan Sarandon has a fling with Hart Bochner for about five minutes.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 21, 2019 6:52 AM |
Is this the one where she ends up becoming a prize-winning photographer?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 21, 2019 6:55 AM |
R9 yes
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 21, 2019 7:04 AM |