

Hope Floats
A wife called Bernie is invited to a talk-show informed that her husband is having an affair with her friend. To forget this shock, Birdee and her daughter Bernice moves to the family house. In her grandmother’s funeral, Bernice is told by her father that his mother relationship is over and he cannot take her with him.





















30 September 1987

16 June 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA




5 April 1968, Tyler, Texas, USA

9 June 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA

6 February 1957, San Diego, California, USA

9 October 1958, Brooklyn, New York, USA


3 September 1918, Waco, Texas, USA

11 September 1967, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA


14 June 1976, Salisbury, Rhodesia

11 September 1934, Baird, Texas, USA

8 December 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

24 April 1989, Texas, USA

10 July 1956, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA


10 August 1959, New York City, New York, USA

19 June 1930, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

22 May 1963, Houston, Texas, USA


30 August 1987, Garland, Texas, USA

26 July 1964, Arlington, Virginia, USA



October 28, 2002
Well, no it doesn't.
January 01, 2000
At times heartwarming home-town kitsch, at other times predictable puppy-love pablum for the young and recently separated, Hope Floats... but just barely.
March 02, 2002
In order for us to believe in the future and to step into it with buoyancy, we need the nurturing support of those nearest and dearest to us. Then hope floats.
January 27, 2005
... just horrible, horrible, horrible.
February 08, 2003
The plot of this tear-jerker is a little heavy-handed, and so is the directing by Forest Whitaker.
January 01, 2000
Nothing spells dull and saccharine quite like the two dreaded H's--hugs and healing.
January 01, 2011
Redemptive drama ready made for family viewing.