<P> Novalee Nation ( Natalie Portman ) is seventeen years old and seven months pregnant . She sets off on a road trip from Tennessee to California with her boyfriend , Willy Jack Pickens ( Dylan Bruno ) in an old , broken down 1963 Plymouth . When driving through Sequoyah , Oklahoma , Novalee notices , after her nap , that her shoes have gone through the car 's floor boards . She asks Willy Jack to stop at the local Walmart so that she can go to the restroom and buy new shoes . The cashier is to give Novalee her change when she realizes the amount -- $5.55 . She believes the number five to be a bad omen . Barefoot , she runs outside to find Willy Jack gone and he having left behind her and her new Polaroid camera . </P>
<P> Novalee Nation ( Natalie Portman ) is seventeen years old and seven months pregnant . She sets off on a road trip from Tennessee to California with her boyfriend , Willy Jack Pickens ( Dylan Bruno ) in an old , broken down 1963 Plymouth . When driving through Sequoyah , Oklahoma , Novalee notices , after her nap , that her shoes have gone through the car 's floor boards . She asks Willy Jack to stop at the local Walmart so that she can go to the restroom and buy new shoes . The cashier is to give Novalee her change when she realizes the amount -- $5.55 . She believes the number five to be a bad omen . Barefoot , she runs outside to find Willy Jack gone and he having left behind her and her new Polaroid camera . </P>
who played the boyfriend in where the heart is
who played the boyfriend in where the heart is
Dylan Bruno
Dylan Bruno