Novalee 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, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

• DirectorMatt Williams
• Release27 April 2000
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration2h
• Budget$15,000,000
• Revenue$33,800,000
• Rate
  

  7.1
  698 reviews
• Productions

  Wind Dancer Films, 20th Century Fox