Hope Floats

(Fox)

After Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) learns that her best friend is having an affair with Birdee's husband, she takes her daughter and heads back home to Texas, where she meets up with the small-town boy (Harry Connick Jr.) who's had a thing for her since high school. Forest Whitaker's film has Bullock playing essentially the same attractive woman she does in all her movies. And though she and Connick look good together, the plot has more than enough gaps to sink this leaky tub of a movie.