Prime VideoWhere the Heart Is (2000)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Right
Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.1
Overview
Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) is a pregnant seventeen-year-old from Tennessee heading to California with her boyfriend Willie Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), but is abandoned by him at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Nov...
Starring Cast
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Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) is a pregnant seventeen-year-old from Tennessee heading to California with her boyfriend Willie Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), but is abandoned by him at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Nov...
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Leans Right
Primary
The film champions individual resilience and the power of private community support as the primary solutions to personal hardship, aligning with conservative values of self-reliance and local community over systemic interventions.
The movie includes visible diversity within its supporting cast, though its central characters are predominantly white. The narrative focuses on themes of personal resilience and community support, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its core message.
Secondary
The film 'Where the Heart Is' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The story centers entirely on heterosexual relationships and family dynamics, resulting in an N/A rating for LGBTQ+ portrayal as there is no depiction.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Where the Heart Is" is an adaptation of a novel. All major and significant supporting characters maintain their original genders as established in the source material. There are no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as a different gender in the movie.
The film is an adaptation of Billie Letts' novel. A review of the main characters and their portrayals indicates no instances where a character's established race from the source material was changed for the screen.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
5.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.7
7.1
Critic Ratings
3.5
3.0
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