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| Oscar and four-time Emmy Award-winner, Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets, Mad About You) makes her directorial debut with the wonderful Then She Found Me. A hit of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, Hunt stars alongside Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually), Bette Midler (The Rose, Beaches) and Matthew Broderick (The Producers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) in a very funny and deeply moving story about the way we create families both by blood and by choice. April Epner (Hunt) is thirty-nine years old. Her biological clock is not so much ticking as sounding an alarm. In a matter of weeks her world is turned upside down, when her gentle but immature husband, Ben (Broderick), decides their recent marriage is a mistake and her ailing adoptive mother passes away. If this wasn’t enough to deal with, a brassy, overbearing local talk-show host named Bernice Graves (Midler) shows up out of the blue, announcing herself as April’s biological mother. Devastated on the one hand and bewildered on the other, April finds solace from her rapidly unravelling life in a blossoming relationship with Frank (Firth), a handsome, charming, and suddenly single dad of two. Based on the book of the same name by Elinor Lipman, with Then She Found Me Helen Hunt combines an excellent performance with impressive directorial finesse, marking a new high in an already accomplished career. Broderick is boyishly self-absorbed, while Firth perfectly captures the guardedness of a recently hurt guy who’s also inherently humorous and passionate. Midler is, as always, a force of nature – witty, energetic, occasionally outrageous but always likeable. A romantic comedy that’s about more than just hooking up, Then She Found Me is a refreshing look at love, family and friendship and the happy accidents that ultimately define our lives. |