"Then She Found Me" (2008) / review and/or viewer comments

Then She Found Me

MPAA Rating:

for language and some sexual content

Review coming from Contributor: Misty Wagner

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Primary Audience:

Adults

Genre:

Romance, Comedy, Drama, Adaptation

Length:

1 hr. 40 min.

Year of Release:

2008

USA Release:

April 25, 2008; May 2, 2008 (limited)

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Featuring:	Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Ben Shenkman, Florence Annequin, Cherise Boothe, David Callegati, Geneva Carr, Chris Chalk, Brother Douglas, Audrey Elizabeth Fafard, John Benjamin Hickey, Rachel Konstantin, Stacie Linardos, Andy Miller, Tommy Nelson, Jonathan Roumie, Salman Rushdie, Maggie Siff, Rabbi Kenneth Stern, Daisy Tahan, Schuster Vance
Director:	Helen Hunt
Producer:	Moon Blauner, Jeff Geoffray, Louise Goodsill, Helen Hunt, Walter Josten, Ralph Kamp, Pamela Koffler, Matthew Myers, Katie Roumel, Chip Signore, Connie Tavel, Christine Vachon, John Wells
Distributor:	THINKFilm

“A thoroughly modern women in a thoroughly modern crisis.”

Copyrighted, THINKFilm
Producer’s Synopsis: “Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with ‘Then She Found Me,’ a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth month (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.”

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Movie Critics

“…it has all the ingredients of a slick, commercial farce, which it emphatically is not.… Ms. Hunt takes every opportunity to avoid easy comic shtick and cutesy-poo sentimentality in an effort to make her characters act and sound like real people.”
—Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“…laugh-through-the-tears material… ‘Then She Found Me’ offers in spades.… Rating: ‘C’”
—Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Daily News

“…a modest comedy… By the end, ‘Then She Found Me’ emerges as an entry in the postmodern exploration of family, a unit that’s a patchwork, both natural and gerrymandered, diverse ethnically and religiously and stitched together with all sorts of extended members.…”
—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune

“…Hunt's touch behind the camera is sometimes as severe as her demeanor in front of it, though she can do some very nice things; especially within the intimate surroundings where her actors flourish.…”
—Gene Seymour, Newsday

“…There are incompetent movies, and then there are incompetent movies in which Salman Rushdie turns up playing a gynecologist.… (1 out of 6 stars)”
—Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago