Birdee’s House in Small-Town Texas is where the 1998 romantic drama Hope Floats, Sandra Bullock played Birdee Pruitt, a woman who’s publicly humiliated on national TV when her best friend announces she’s having an affair with Birdee’s husband. Birdee takes her young daughter Bernice and flees Chicago, returning to her mother’s house in a small Texas town. It’s known as the McCollum-Chapman-Trousdale House, in Smithville, Texas. It’s a Neoclassical-style home built in 1908.