Hope Floats

Sentimental romance in which a former beauty queen returns home to rebuild her shattered life after she is humiliated on a national talk show.

Birdee Pruitt ( Sandra Bullock ) finds her life coming apart at the seams when her best friend and lover invite her onto a talk show in order to tell her they are having an affair.

She returns home and begins to create a new life on more solid foundations, discovering the unglamorous secrets to real happiness, including a burgeoning love for a good- hearted admirer, Justin Matisse ( Harry Connick Jr ).