Then She Found Me
Then She Found Me, directed by first time director Helen Hunt and produced by Ralph Kamp, Louise Goodsill with John Wells, is set to release this month. The movie boasts a rich cast starring Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler.
Then She Found Me details the life of April Epner, a schoolteacher who is contacted by her apparent birth mother, Bernice Graves (Bette Midler), after her separation from husband Ben (Matthew Broderick). Graves does everything to become the mother , she has never been before to Epner. However, Graves turns Epner’s life upside down as she begins a relationship with the father (Harrelson) of one of her students.
MSN Movies reports that the movie is based on Elinor Lipman’s best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt), whose long-lost birth mother reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis.
Abandoned by her husband (Matthew Broderick) and still grieving the death of her adoptive mother, the emotionally fragile teacher enters into a relationship with the father of one of her students just as her biological mother, an eccentric talk-show host, appears on her doorstep attempting a reconciliation.
According to Cinemabland.com, for a first time movie director, Helen Hunt does a good job balancing the movie’s heavy elements with the lighter tone.
No the only thing really wrong with Then She Found Me is a writer/director who’s too attached to her own material. Maybe if someone else had directed her script they’d have had the good sense to simplify it a bit and cut out some of the confusion. Helen though, just can’t resist squeezing in one more thing, and that means she ends up trying to tackle some of those big issues she cares about as random asides, shoehorned into the plot where they’re out of place.
Before the movie is released, here is the official trailer.