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- "Where the Heart Is"
(Reviewed July 17, 2000)
- I saw this one several weeks ago, but it deserves special dishonorable mention even at this remove. "Where the Heart Is" is shallow, cloying, and criminally condescending. It is a
movie that all but screams that it was cobbled together by venal Hollywood types in the hopes of putting one over on the people they regard as the barefoot bucktoothed rubes of America's hillbilly heartland.
"All the Tammy-Fayes and Cletuses will just gobble this swill right up," you can hear the studio money-men chortling. "It makes hick look hip!" God, what a waste of Natalie Portman, and also the always
alluring Ashley Judd.
Back Row Grade: D (instead of an F, and that's only because Natalie Portman is so jaw-droppingly, achingly, amazingly beautiful that I would go see her in
absolutely
anything -- even "Phantom Menace," and that's saying quite a bit...)
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