Editing Where the Heart Is (2000 film) (section)

==Cast==
* [[Natalie Portman]] as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teen who gets stranded in Sequoyah.
* [[Ashley Judd]] as Lexie Coop, a nurse who lives in Sequoyah and becomes Novalee's best friend.
* [[Stockard Channing]] as Thelma "Sister" Husband, a religious woman in a common law marriage. She is the first to befriend Novalee when Thelma mistakes her for somebody she used to know years earlier.
* [[Joan Cusack]] as Ruth Meyers, a cranky music agent.
* [[James Frain]] as Forney Hull, a librarian in Sequoyah who becomes Novalee's love interest.
* [[Dylan Bruno]] as Willy Jack Pickens, Novalee's ex-boyfriend and presumably Americus' biological father.
* [[Keith David]] as Moses Whitecotton, a Walmart portrait photographer who later trains Novalee in photography.
* Richard Andrew Jones as Mr. Sprock, Thelma's partner.
* [[Sally Field]] as Mama Lil, the estranged mother of Novalee.
* Laura House as Nicki, one of Novalee's friends from Tennessee.
* Karey Green as Rhonda, one of Novalee's friends from Tennessee.
* Mark Vogues as a religious man from Midnight, Mississippi, who abducts baby Americus.
* [[Angee Hughes]] as a religious woman from Midnight, Mississippi, who abducts baby Americus.
* Margaret Hoard as Mary Elizabeth Hull, the sick sister of Forney.
* Mackenzie Fitzgerald as Americus Nation, the daughter of Novalee.
* Alicia Godwin as Jolene, a 14-year-old girl who ropes Willy Jack into assisting in her recent heist.
* [[Dennis Letts]] (the book author's husband) as an unnamed sheriff who arrests Willy Jack for being involved in Jolene's heist.
* Rodger Boyce as Officer Harry
* [[David Alvarado]] as Tommy Reynolds, Willy Jack's cellmate who accuses him of stealing his song.
* [[Richard Nance]] as Johnny DeSotto, a known music agent who meets Willy Jack.
* [[Bob Coonrod]] as Ernie, an exterminator who becomes Lexie's love interest.
* [[Cody Linley]] as Brownie Coop, one of Lexie's children.
** Adrian and Michael Garza as Young Brownie Coop (''uncredited'')
* Camryn Callaway as Baby Ruth Coop, one of Lexie's children.
** Jessica Hinderliter as Young Baby Ruth Coop
* Shelby Callaway as Cherry Coop, one of Lexie's children.
** Sarah Hinderliter as Young Cherry Coop
* Kaylie Harmony as Praline Coop
* [[Heather Kafka]] as Delphia

[[Jim Beaver]] had a part in the film as Clawhammer, but his scene was deleted.