Where the Heart Is Reviews

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for both Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd, I still wanted to check it out. Eventually, it wasn’t really good, I’m afraid. I mean, with a title like this, you pretty much know what you will get beforehand, basically, a sappy tearjerker and, unfortunately, it didn’t really go further than this. I mean, Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd were both really charming and actually way too good for this kind of material but it was still pretty neat to see a very young Natalie Portman whose status was getting bigger and bigger every year at the time. Concerning Ashley Judd, like most actresses above 40 years old, she struggles to remain in the limelight nowadays and even though you get to see her from time to time, none of her current work is really interesting. Of course, I know, I shouldn’t take the plot so seriously but, honestly, it is really difficult to care for those characters or what they are going through if they are stuck in such a preposterous and underwhelming story. To conclude, I have seen worse but it still remain an average drama and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid.