Novalee Nation is a 17-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, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

• Wind Dancer Films
• 20th Century Fox
• Natalie Portman
• Ashley Judd
• Stockard Channing
• Joan Cusack
• Sally Field
• James Frain
• Dylan Bruno
• Keith David