Then She Found Me (2007)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The actors are great in this movie, and believable. I LOVED this movie, there were some great moments happening in this movie and I loved the ending. I would watch it more than once and might see if I could purchase it on DVD. Helen Hunt is still a great actress, I enjoyed watching her in this movie as much as I did in "As Good As It Gets" with Jack Nicholson!!! Bette Midler, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick were also showed their greatness in this movie. Helen Hunt shows her multi-talented qualities by directing and acting. Now a days there aren't to many movies that you can watch and at the end of them have a good feeling about life afterward, this is one of them!!!!!

Played by first-time director Helen Hunt, April is a 39-year-old elementary school teacher in Brooklyn whose biological clock has been ticking so loudly it's been keeping her up at night. But that's just the beginning of her woes. Her husband of just a few months (Matthew Broderick) has left her; her adoptive mother has just died; and a crazy lady (Bette Midler) - a local TV talk show host - is claiming to be her biological mother (with Steve McQueen as her father, no less). Then, just as her midlife crisis is coming to a boil, in steps a conveniently abandoned father of two (Colin Firth) - one of whom is April's pupil - to sweep her off her feet, though he comes with his own share of problems as well.Though "Then She Found Me" is not quite as shopworn and trite as that synopsis may make it sound, it's still an uneasy mixture of insightful drama and plot-tweaking contrivance. In fact, the Alice Arlen/Victor Levin/Helen Hunt screenplay, based on the 1990 novel by Elinor Lipman, tries so hard to be unconventional that it often winds up feeling fake. On the positive side, though, the acting is good (why have we seen so little of Hunt on screen since she won her Oscar fourteen years ago?); the characters skew a little older than your typical romantic comedy figures; the story ends on a tremendously sweet note, and there's just enough genuine humor and charm in the movie to make it worth a look-see.One side note: the movie makes a continuity error by claiming that April was conceived in 1966 when McQueen was off in China filming "The Sand Pebbles," but later we're told she was conceived when her mother was at a drive-in showing of "Bullitt," which wasn't even released until 1968!

I love women who age gracefully and Helen Hunt is certainly one of them - letting all of her wrinkles become part of her character but honestly why on earth would she try to play a 39 year old woman when she is 46? I am 36 and find this highly offensive to put a woman who is very wrinkled (and laden down with all kinds of emotional baggage) in the role of a 39 year old. I know 39 is not exactly young but I don't know any 39 year old with as many deep wrinkles as Helen Hunt - I just think it puts across a really bad image for women - whiny, desperate and ugly.Also, what on earth was Colin Firth doing in that film? And why on earth did they make him play a mentally unstable sad father - there is no way that he would ever be like that - it just does not suit his character. Should have got someone like Nicolas Cage to do it and it may have been half believable. Also their relationship was completely ridiculous and why did he keep saying she was so beautiful when clearly she was ugly inside and out?And poor Matthew Broderick - made to look like a blubbering fool - has it really come to this for him?The only highight of the film was the wonderful Babs but she just kept getting treated appallingly by the god awful Helen Hunt character. A whiny New Yorker might have been funny in an 80's TV show but honestly, I think we've all moved on from then. Pity Helen Hunt hasn't.

This was like a Helen Hunt ego trip. Oh, great I found a book and I'm going to make a movie from the book. I'll star in it. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Oh wait, I'll produce it too. Oh wait, I'll write and direct it too. Is there anything else that I can do? Nope, this is my Helen Hunt movie. And so she did.SpoilerI wanted to like this movie, honestly I really did. We planned it for a Frinday night movie, my wife and I. We got blankets and pillows and prepared for an hour and a half of romance and comedy. Nothing could have been further from what we expected. It was just awful. Her infantile husband leaves her, she meets the man of her dreams and blows him off to nail her "boy" husband in her car. And it gets worse and worse and worse. She wants to get pregnant and finally does with the man of her dreams but the baby is by her ex. Great, she's having the baby she's always wanted. But the baby dies. And all this time her real mother who blew her off when she was an infant shows up and Hunt treats her like crap. Then she treats the man of her life like crap and blows him off. She treats everyone like crap. And on and on and on. What a wasted night this was.