Hope Floats

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Hope Floats (1998)

Information at Internet Movie Database

Cinema in Focus, a social and spiritual commentary by Hal Conklin and Denny Wayman.

Movie Parables review.

Hollywood Jesus visual review.

Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health - Spiritual Practices for Human Being.

Themes

Fathers/Aging

Honoring parents: the scene where Sandra Bullock and her family come to see her father in the Alzheimers unit, continue through the dance. We followed this clip with "Kind and Generous" by Natalie Merchant.(Vivian Johnson, Windsor Crossing Community church, Chesterfield, MO)

Hope

"Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will."

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