Question: in hope floats who is the little boy
Answer: 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 .