She has finally found a home in this small town where fate has dropped her.
Now, with the family she always wanted, Novalee is transformed from a homeless teen to a successful and strong woman. More importantly, over the next few years, Novalee finally becomes part of an unconventional, makeshift family comprised of her wonderfully eccentric new friends. When she gives birth on the floor - and her hideaway is revealed - Novalee and her "Walmart baby" become instant celebrities. Alone and broke, Novalee surreptitiously moves into the vast store, taking food and supplies from its shelves. Only her Polaroid camera remains in the parking space. For when she leaves the store, she discovers that Willie Jack and the Plymouth are gone. A bathroom stop en route, at a Sequoyah, Oklahoma Walmart, changes Novalee's life forever. The closest thing to family for the hard-luck teen is her selfish, would-be musician boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), with whom she's travelling from Tennessee to California in a rust bucket of a Plymouth. Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman), seventeen-years-old and very pregnant, has never been part of a real home.
She is assisted in this decision by an unlikely source. Forney ends up falling in love with Novalee, who feels she has to make a decision of how she can best help him. As much as they help Novalee, she in turn has a profound affect on them as each is dealing with an issue which stops them from having a truly fulfilled life. As her stay in Sequoyah is extended, Novalee is befriended and ultimately assisted by a variety of townsfolk, including a recovering alcoholic named Sister Husband (Stockard Channing), single mother and nurse Lexi Coop (Ashley Judd), who names her children after snack foods, Walmart's contract photographer named Moses Whitecotten (Keith David), and the temporary librarian named Forney Hull (James Frain), an academically brilliant man originally from New England. With no food and very little money, Novalee ends up secretly living in the town's Walmart. On the drive from their current home in Tennessee to Bakersfield, California, where they are planning on moving, Willie Jack abandons Novalee in the small town of Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
With the exception of her boyfriend and the unborn baby's father Willie Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), she is all alone in the world with very little money of her own. Having lived her entire life in a trailer, Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) is a pregnant, superstitious, and uneducated seventeen-year-old.
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