
Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman)

is a 15-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 in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers (including Stockard Channing

and Ashley Judd)

"adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
2000 PG-13 119 minutes
4 stars. pretty good show with an interesting tale!!