Hope Floats Critic Reviews

A sharper edge could have taken a pretty good, if uneven, picture to greater heights, considering its potent ingredients and actors. Read the full review

Hope Floats, which often resembles a rosy commercial, does indulge in too much awkward slow motion, and in occasional embarrassing romps that are meant to signify family fun.Read the full review

A turgid melodrama with the emotional range of a sympathy card. Read the full review

An insipid, stillborn drama that drags its viewers through a ghetto of despair before finally, unexpectedly plopping them down in the midst of a happy ending.Read the full review

The pond is so shallow in this wan romance that there's no room for anything to float.Read the full review

Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress. Read the full review

If there's one thing more heartbreaking than a crying child, it's a crying child wearing thick glasses, an image exploited numerous times throughout the course of the dull, uninvolving, tissue-thin Hope Floats.Read the full review

A dreadfully dull, completely conventional story of a young wife's recuperation from being unceremoniously dumped, this is a by-the-numbers bit of emotional calculation without a single fresh, original or offbeat move in its system, apart from a nifty opening sequence.Read the full review