Sometimes the perfect life is not all that it seems to be. This is a heartwarming story about the bumps and bruises when you return home to that small town and everyone knows what happened. There are so many issues that are dealt with in this movie. Not just relationship between a split-up couple but: the ones around them, and displaying the great emotional upheavels that come from that split up, relationships between mothers and daughters plus the starting over factor in the town you grew up in. There are many things that one could learn from this movie.

At times this “Hope Floats will have you in tears and at others have you laughing. It is a good movie about the effects of separation and divorce on family members. Dove awards this movie the Dove “Family- Approved Seal” for 12+.