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A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her ...( read more 
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MCT:August 29, 2008i love this movie! its a romantic how middle aged people just found love in the midst of lifes crisis...
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MCT:August 8, 2008
first direction for Hunt, and she's pretty good. Lines are very clever. Firth's character is beautiful. Midler is stunning
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MCT:July 27, 2008
It was just an average sorta movie with good performances coming mainly from Colin Firth and Bette Midler.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
Not the best romantic movie. Especially the hyper Bette Midler got on my nerves. The story is OK and Helen Hunt and Colin Firth play their best. Just dón't like the casting for Broderick and Midler.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
I watched this movie because of Helen Hunt. Although the movie is not disappointing but I do feel that something is missing. The movie is categorized as comedy but there's not much comedy in it actually. Or maybe this what they call a dark comedy?
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MCT:June 6, 2008
Beautifully written, and engaging story of "people of a certain age". Colin Firth is DIVINE in this movie!
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MCT:May 5, 2008
Though the story was not all that bad, I couldn't stop fixating on the fact that Helen Hunt looked really bad.
She looked tired and boarder-line anorectic.
She did a good job acting though, and turned a movie that wouldn't have been much more than a snoozer into something respectable. -
MCT:March 29, 2008It's nice to know that Helen Hunt directed this. It's just her thing and you know it. Controlled , no over the top delivery of lines. Love it that she kept the wrinkles and laugh lines which makes her one of the smartest in Hollywood (in the league of Jodie Foster). Good to see Bette Midler playing a mother role again (reminiscent of Stella).
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MCT:March 26, 2008
The movie was so raw. Completely human and not romanticizing the less than ideal situations. It was messy - just the way life is. The movie does start out slow but finds its heart towards the end. Both Firth and Midler are exciting in their roles of a paranoid, obsessive love-interest and an annoyingly flawed mother, respectively. Helen Hunt, I'm not too sure about. At times I was just amazed by her performance in certain scenes. At other times I found her obnoxiously overrated.
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MCT:March 20, 2008
Well-meaning, subdued, but otherwise unremarkable midlife-crisis dramedy hints at better things to come from Hunt behind the camera.
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MCT:January 27, 2008
I've been waiting for this film to be released for a whole year now and it still hasn't been to theaters. It won't be until my birthday (April 25th) 2008. However, luckily for me, I was able to see a screener of this film early. Then She Found Me premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2007 to mostly positive reviews. Most of them said this film isn't anything special or new, but it definitely is worth seeing. They praised Helen Hunt for her directorial debut and also applauded the supporting performance of Bette Midler. I agree with both of these points and I think those are the two best things about this film.
This film can be added onto the pile of romantic comedies/dramas that keeps on growing higher and higher each year. It's a film that isn't very original, but definitely has strong morals and is a great way for a woman to make her directorial debut.
Adapted from the novel by Elinor Lipman, Then She Found Me is the story of April Epner (Hunt), a school teacher who hits a midlife crisis when her husband (Broderick) leaves her, her adoptive mother (Cohen) dies and her real one (Midler) appears out of no where to start a relationship.
To me, the story seemed real enough so I left it up to the actors to win me over. It was moving along slowly in the beginning, but picked up when Bette Midler appeared as Bernice Graves. Her enthusiasm and delivery makes her character very addictive and I wished that she would stay onscreen for the rest of the film. She played her character well (an eccentric television personality from New York) and provides the comic relief in many scenes. She becomes a problem in April's life at first (when she appears suddenly and tells her that her real father is Steve McQueen), but in the end, Bernice becomes an important part in April's journey.
I was more impressed with Helen Hunt's directorial job than her acting in this film. That's not to say her performance was bad, because it wasn't at all, it was actually very impressive. Her directorial job, however, was very good. It's better than something Gary Marshall would do with a film like this, let's put it that way.
Overall, it's a film that I felt I've seen before, but still left an emotional impact. The performances were good, especially Midler's and the directorial debut by Hunt was impressive. I do recommend this film to those who are looking for a good romance/drama. It's better than most from that genre and you'll most definitely be pleased.
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