Where the Heart Is
Movie • 2000 • Comedy
ReportNovalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
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Novalee’s friend gets beat up by her boyfriend but it doesn’t show it but it shows how she looks after
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Talks about her friend’s boyfriend at the time trying to do things to her kids
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Lexie's children, Brownie and Praline, are sexually assaulted by her new boyfriend, Rodger. This is never shown on screen. Lexie happened to be coming home early from her shift at the hospital to get ready for a date, and walked in on her boyfriend forcing himself on her son and daughter in her bedroom. She flew into a rage and hit him twice, as she recounts to Novalee later. Rodger beats Lexie, and presumably takes off before any local authorities are reported. Rodger himself never makes an appearance in the film.
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Bodily Harm
Is there amputation?
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christelarant
Main character’s ex boyfriend has both legs amputated in an accident
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Does someone vomit?
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A pregnant woman is in a Walmart and she looks to appear ill. She goes to the bathroom. We don’t hear or see anything at all, she’s just coughing in a stall and then wipes her mouth as she leaves. Implied that she was sick.
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Novalee wakes up in the hospital after giving birth to her daughter Americus in the Wal-Mart. A couple of scenes take place including a tv interview with Novalee outside of her hospital room, and a brief look at the newborn nursery while she chats to Lexie, a nurse who becomes her best friend.
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Nothing graphic, just people making out & a couple asks for forgiveness for “fornication”
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