Then She Found Me (2007)

Director:

Helen Hunt

Writers:

Alice Arlen (screenplay) and
Victor Levin (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

1 May 2008 (Israel)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Life can change in a heartbeat.

Plot:

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother...

Plot Keywords:

Talk Show Host | Birth Mother | Unhappy Marriage | Syringe | Biological Clock

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Helen Hunt	...	April Epner
Bette Midler	...	Bernice Graves
Colin Firth	...	Frank
Matthew Broderick	...	Ben Green
Ben Shenkman	...	Dr. Freddy Epner
Lynn Cohen	...	Trudy Epner
John Benjamin Hickey	...	Alan
Salman Rushdie	...	Dr. Masani
Daisy Tahan	...	Ruby
Tommy Nelson	...	Jimmy Ray
Stephanie Yankwitt	...	Stacey
Lillias White	...	Sheila (as Lillias D. White)
David Callegati	...	Gianni
Rabbi Kenneth Stern	...	Rabbi (as Rabbi Kenneth A. Stern)
Robert LuPone	...	Ted

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexual content.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Hebrew

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:M | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | UK:15 | Finland:K-7 | Netherlands:AL | Ireland:15A | Singapore:PG (cut) | New Zealand:M | Argentina:13 | Mexico:B

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Black Watch Productions

Trivia:

ThinkFilm and Canadian distributor TVA Films bought the U.S. and Canadian rights, respectively, for the film at the 2007 Toronto Internation Film Festival.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: About twenty minutes before the end of the picture, when Bernice confronts April at Frank's place, a crew person can be seen for a few seconds in the lower left hand corner of the screen.

Quotes:

April Epner: I know what I did to you, to you in particular. Kinda worst nightmare kind of thing, right? I knew that. Even at the time I knew that.
Frank: What else?
April Epner: I'll do it again, I will, I'll hurt you again and again. Not like that, you'd have to leave me if I hurt you like that. If we were together you would leave me if I hurt you like that again, wouldn't you?
Frank: Yes. Yes, I would.
April Epner: Good. But I'll hurt you in other ways, little ways, I won't mean to but I will. And sometimes I will mean to.
Frank: This is quite an offer you've worked out.
April Epner: You'll hurt me too, you know. You'll hurt me and change on me, you might even leave me after you promise you won't, how about that?
Frank: I wouldn't.
April Epner: But you might.
Frank: But I wouldn't.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Loose Women: (#13.107)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

Mazel Tov Zelda - Zeydns Tants

Deliciously Human

This is perhaps the most deliciously human movie I've seen this year. It's messy unbearably so at times. The lives these people are living are hard to watch, but you can't look away.

I'm a cinematography girl myself and this movie doesn't have stunning panoramic views or killer photography, but it does have great character development and a cohesive plot.

Helen Hunt kills in the title role and as a director. She made me believe she was the woman not that she was acting to be this woman. There's a subtle difference.

Colin Firth delivers as always and Bette Midler stuns. This movie has Oscar written all over it.