When I feel the need to see something, sad, funny, true to life, and a sweet love that blooms and springs to life; I put on my old video of "Hope Floats."
This is a story to touch your heart, and you will feel for the family as Berdie who once had a lifestyle that most people would envy, now has to adjust from a cheating husband who committed adultery with her best friend, to a life without him.
Berdie with her young daughter packs up the two of them and goes back home to her Mama. Her Mama is a very strong and wise woman, who also has a heart condition, which she does not share with Berdie. But that did not stop her Mama from taking in her young grandson, to care for and love.
Life is a struggle as Berdie has to come to terms with her new life, and as her mother tells her--Get out of bed, go outside and get the stink off of you. Finally, Berdie takes her advice and looks for a job.
But the person she has to apply for a job with is from her high school days, and her nick name was "Polka Dot" and she first was very rude to Berdie, but it all turns out well.
Her daughter has problems in school with a bully, and at one point it seemed to consume Berdie, but someone comes to her rescue.
And one of my favorite singers --Garth Brooks---sings Hope Floats. A good show for the family to watch together.
But the person she has to apply for a job with is from her high school days, and her nick name was "Polka Dot" and she first was very rude to Berdie, but it all turns out well.
Her daughter has problems in school with a bully, and at one point it seemed to consume Berdie, but someone comes to her rescue.
And one of my favorite singers --Garth Brooks---sings Hope Floats. A good show for the family to watch together.
Pop your corn and get ready for a great movie that shows what life can give and take away and give a great gift in the end.
© BEPH 2011
