I don't like fives
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Rhonda:
You know the floor is missing? Novalee Nation:
Willy Jack got the whole car for 80 bucks. He had to fix everything on it. And here's the best part. [points at the license plate] Novalee Nation:
No fives! Nicki:
You and your fives. Rhonda:
What fives? Novalee Nation:
On my fifth birthday my mama ran off with a baseball umpire named Fred and never came back. And after I dropped out of school and was waiting tables at Red's, one of the regulars there named Gladys went crazy. When I tried to calm her down she jumped at me with a steak knife and cut me from my wrist to my elbow. Rhonda:
And what's that got to do with fives? Nicki:
It took 55 stitches to close her up. Novalee Nation:
I don't like fives
You know the floor is missing? Novalee Nation:
Willy Jack got the whole car for 80 bucks. He had to fix everything on it. And here's the best part. [points at the license plate] Novalee Nation:
No fives! Nicki:
You and your fives. Rhonda:
What fives? Novalee Nation:
On my fifth birthday my mama ran off with a baseball umpire named Fred and never came back. And after I dropped out of school and was waiting tables at Red's, one of the regulars there named Gladys went crazy. When I tried to calm her down she jumped at me with a steak knife and cut me from my wrist to my elbow. Rhonda:
And what's that got to do with fives? Nicki:
It took 55 stitches to close her up. Novalee Nation:
I don't like fives
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Movie Summary
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
