<P> Birdee Pruitt ( Sandra Bullock ) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto the Toni Post talk show under the pretense of getting a free makeover but instead is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend Connie ( Rosanna Arquette ) . Humiliated on national television , Birdee and her precocious only daughter Bernice ( Mae Whitman ) move back to Birdee 's hometown of Smithville , Texas , with Birdee 's eccentric mother Ramona ( Gena Rowlands ) and her young , imaginative nephew Travis ( Cameron Finley ) , to make a fresh start . As Birdee and Bernice leave Chicago , Birdee gives Bernice a letter from her father , telling Bernice how much he misses her . </P>
<P> Birdee Pruitt ( Sandra Bullock ) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto the Toni Post talk show under the pretense of getting a free makeover but instead is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend Connie ( Rosanna Arquette ) . Humiliated on national television , Birdee and her precocious only daughter Bernice ( Mae Whitman ) move back to Birdee 's hometown of Smithville , Texas , with Birdee 's eccentric mother Ramona ( Gena Rowlands ) and her young , imaginative nephew Travis ( Cameron Finley ) , to make a fresh start . As Birdee and Bernice leave Chicago , Birdee gives Bernice a letter from her father , telling Bernice how much he misses her . </P>
in hope floats who is the little boy
in hope floats who is the little boy
Cameron Finley
Cameron Finley