Hope Floats
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Hope Floats
The movie I decided to watch is called Hope Floats. This is a great movie, and it not only should be about love, but it showed me about life. Do you think you can fix your life and get it back on the right track all on your own? All you have to do is just have to give hope a chance and believe that everything will get better someday. There is always a time in everyones life when something horrible happens. Sometimes it something that changes your very course of life in an instant. Then life becomes difficult and it seems all you can do is give up on everything. But it does not have to be like that at all. Your life is not over, you just hit a rough spot along the way, and things are bound to get better, because it is easier to bounce higher once you have fallen.
Birdee Calvert, played by Sandra Bullock, was a beauty queen, known as “Ms. Popular”. She was also a cheerleader and even prom queen when she was in high school. She married her high school sweet heart, Bill Calvert. They then moved to Chicago straight after high school and lived the perfect life togetherso it seemed. Then things began to seem different for her and things did not seem so perfect after all.
The whole movie starts when she appears on a Reality TV show. She thinks shes there for a free make over or something that he best friend dragged her into doing. She soon realizes thats not why shes there at all. On this TV show, Birdees best friend admits and tells her shes having an affair with her husband.
Birdee and her young daughter, Bernice, decide to pack up and leave Bill. They move out and travel back to Birdees home town of Smithville, Texas. There she much live with her mother. She was never very close with her mother growing up, but now she has to live with her, she wants to start a new bond together.
When she gets to Smithville her life becomes even more complicated than it was to begin with and she never thought it could quite be like this. After much debate, Birdee finally is convinced to start a new life, which involves getting a new job. There is a problem though, she must deal with something from her past. Most of the people she went to high school with still live in Smithville. Normally this would not be a problem for anyone else, but when you think about that fact that her and her friends teased everyone, it was a big problem for her, because everyone is all grown up now. Birdee realizes that people she always made fun of are now a big part of the town such as a girl that she called polka dots.. Dottie, polka dots real name, finds out Birdee loves to take pictures so she finds her a job at the local photo store, which was nice of her for what Birdee did to her.
For Birdees mother finding a job was not good enough. She wanted her to move on with her live and maybe find a new boyfriend. This is where Justin Matisse comes into the movie. He was not one of the popular kids in high school, but hes had a crush on Birdee for the longest time, even thought she was not particularly nice to him or interested him at all. Birdees mother wants these two to get together and date. But she even thought her husband hurt her very badly, she just cant seem to get over it. Birdee has had two things in her life that shes cherished. One of them being the man in her life and the other is being a mother, and now it seems like she has neither. Now she does not have any of these things. Her husband cheated on her and her daughter is extremely upset with the split of her parents and the fact that Birdee is always depressed and always in bed, she soon thinks her mother is the one to blame for the split.
Bridees daughter Bernice, does not like Justin very much, she wants what most kids want, which is for her parents to get back together, but thats an unrealistic expectation. She does not want to see her mom get into another relationship in fear of the same thing happening twice. Bernice thinks her father is going to come back for them. She tries to scare Justin away every time he stops by, because she thinks that with him gone her mother and father will get back together.
She makes a decision and finally understands what she needs to do in life while in Smithville. With help from her mom and Justin, she can start to let go of her lost marriage and start over. Birdee had finally begun to think her luck was staring to change from bad to good. She had finally formed a close and loving bond with her mother and was starting to fall for Justin. However, no good feeling lasts forever. Her mother ends up dying suddenly one night and again shes left devastated. Her death affects everyone because everyone in town knew her. Bernice didnt know how to take all the pain in her life she was dealing with, and it was becoming too difficult for her to grasp. At the funeral for her grandmother, she notices her father and wrongly thinks hes come back for her. However, her father is not there for that reason, hes actually there to give Birdee their divorce papers. Bernice dont seem to understand, so she quickly runs upstairs and packs her bags and runs to her father in his car. Bill breaks her heart by telling her she needs to stay with her mom because he needs to give all his time