Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

honeyeastman 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!!!!!

MBunge Wow, does Helen Hunt look bad in this movie. I mean really bad. It's like she spent 6 months in a forced labor camp before doing this film and then spent every night during production sleeping inside the machine used to make freeze dried milk. Hunt is so unappealing here, she makes her puffy, sexagenarian co-star Bette Midler look like a dewy ingénue.Hunt produced Then She Found Me and I've seen actresses get naked in that situation to jazz up their own pictures. Here, a beautiful woman decided to make herself as unattractive as possible, which might not have been so disconcerting if everyone else in the cast were similarly uglied up. But the rest of the actors all have the normal make up jobs and look as good as they do in any other film you've seen them in. I mean, Matthew Broderick is actually older than Hunt and has not aged all that well, yet Hunt could almost past for Broderick's cancer-stricken mother in this movie.I suppose I shouldn't go on and on about it. It's not exactly nice to focus so intently on the physical appearance of a performer. But the way Hunt looks in this film is, by far, the most striking thing about it. When you're watching Then She Found Me, you can't help but wonder "Why did Helen Hunt co-write, direct and produce a movie where she resembles a piece of dehydrated gristle?"There is one good thing about Hunt's bizarrely homely look in this picture. It does somewhat district you from her otherwise quite noticeable deficiencies as a storyteller. The film has an uneven tone, is oblivious to how pathetic most of its characters are, never settles on what it's about, is littered with failed attempts at humor and wraps things up with a lovers' reconciliation that's turns into a powerful argument for celibate solitude.April Epner (Helen Hunt) is a 39 year old Jewish school teacher who desperately wants kids. The movie opens with her marriage ceremony to Ben (Matthew Broderick). There's a very brief scene where it's established that April was adopted and therefore wants her own biological child. Then Ben leaves her after they have break-up sex on the kitchen floor. The same day Ben departs, April meets the divorced dad (Colin Firth) of two of her students and it couldn't have been more apparent that the two of them will fall in love if the film had stopped at that point and the words "These two people will fall in love" appeared on the screen for a full minute.Shortly after Ben's abandonment and April's initial flirting in a theatrically awkward way with Frank (Colin Firth), April's birth mother decides to contact her. She turns out to be local TV personality Bernice Graves (Bette Midler), who appears to have been transplanted into this movie from a very different film. Midler plays Bernice with the sort of over-the-top pushiness and self-centeredness you might tolerate in a broader and louder comedy. In this quieter and intentionally quirkier story, Bernice comes off like a woman who is both unpleasant and unbalanced. Imagine a worn out Jamie from Mad About You being paired with George Constanza's mother from Seinfeld.Anway, as April tries to get closer to Frank while dealing with the annoying and stalkerish attempts at bonding of Bernice, she gets pregnant. That brings Ben back into the equation, though only for a few very cheap lunges at a laugh and a really unbelievable plot twist. What happens to April, her baby and her complicated family situation is way too contrived to get into. Suffice it to say that the film offers up a happy ending despite all logic and reason to the contrary.As a director, Hunt is adequate when it comes to things like framing a shot and that's about as far as she goes. Her narrative decisions are almost uniformly awful. Let me just take what happens with April and Ben as an example. Hunt never explains why April fell in love with a pudgy weakling like Ben or why Ben wanted to marry an emaciated-looking woman like April. It's never explained why Ben decides to leave her or even how long there were together before they got to that point. And by having April and Ben's marriage and separation happen within the space of two or three minutes, it only emphasizes how little you know or understand either of them. After Ben leaves, he reappears in only 6 more scenes in the whole film and he functions as nothing more than a plot device or a punchline in any of them. After his final scene, where absolutely nothing about his relationship with April is resolved or even addressed, Ben vanishes from the story and is never heard from or referred to again.The idea of a woman being caught between a man she's always been with and a man she's meant to be with, while hearing her biological clock tick-tick-ticking away, is a decent enough start for script. Hunt not only botches that, she also needlessly clutters things up by including the whole "zany birth mother returns" nonsense. The two separate plot threads don't have any connection or resonance and create a confused mess of a film.After winning an Oscar, an actor or actress usually gets one chance to make the movie they want to make, the way they want to make it. Hunt wasted her chance on Then She Found Me and there's nothing here to suggest she should ever get another opportunity.

Chrysanthepop It's great to see Helen Hunt back on the big screen. This time she assumes multiple roles, as director, co-writer and lead actress. Hunt proves to be quite a competent director as she tells a charming story set in a small town about a young woman (who was adopted by a Jewish lady) who desperately wants to have a baby but things go haywire when her husband leaves her, her adopt mother passes away and her eccentric birth mother unexpectedly shows up. 'Then She Found Me' is an unconventional comedy and Hunt has put a lot of heart into the making. With a solid screenplay, the film successfully keeps the viewer involved. She reunites with Matthew Broderick on screen after almost twenty years and her pairing with Colin Firth works very well. Even though Broderick and Firth have played similar roles earlier, it fun watching them matching wits with Hunt. Then there's a joyful Bette Midler who totally rocks as the eccentric talk-show host/mother. Yet, this is Helen Hunt's film. She's been playing supporting roles of late but with 'Then She Found Me' she proves that she can still lead a film. I admire that she has made her own thing and succeeded in giving us a gem of a movie. Hats off to the multi-talented Ms. Hunt.

Sean Daniel 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.