Where The Heart Is (2000 Film) - Differences Between Novel and Film

Differences Between Novel and Film

In the novel:

• Novalee finds the number 5 very unlucky in the movie and the number 7 unlucky in the book.
• Sister Husband has brown hair in the movie and blue hair in the book.
• Lexie marries Leon Yoder (Ernie the Exterminator was not in the book).
• Forney does return to college until Novalee comes back to confess her lie in the movie but in the book Forney does not return to college; instead he travels around the nation. He eventually settles in Chicago and begins working in a bookstore.
• Forney and Novalee did get married in a Wal-Mart but in the book they do not get married at all.
• Lexie has 5 kids with 4 different men and pregnant with a sixth child but a fifth man.
• In the book, Lexie is obese. She is constantly trying new fad diets and weight loss schemes.
• Benny Goodluck is left out of the film version.