Powerful

Beautiful, moving film.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

April Epner (Helen Hunt) is happily newly-married to Ben (Matthew Broderick). The 39-year-old teacher was adopted by Jewish mother Trudy and is desperate to have a child of her own. She hates that everybody is pushing for her to adopt. Ben leaves her and Trudy dies. Frank (Colin Firth) is the father of one of her students who is taken with her. His wife had left him to travel the globe with her boyfriend. April is contacted by her daytime talkshow host biological mother Bernice Graves (Bette Midler) who claims her father to be movie star Steve McQueen. Then April discovers that she's pregnant with Ben's baby.This is Helen Hunt's theatrical directing debut. There are some issues with flow and tone. April is a middle age Jewish New Yorker but older Helen Hunt has tended towards white trailer trash. There are opportunities for comedy especially with Midler but Hunt doesn't always play along. Hunt is better dramatically at that point. Even in Mad About You, she was the straight man and the infuriated wife. There is also a weird cameo by Salman Rushdie as the doctor. It's a little head-scratching. The role could have given small jolts of comedy but instead, it's a lot of "I didn't know he acted." Certainly, there is a workmanship to Hunt's directing but there are also issues.

One of the best thing of summer TV, is that deprived of all trash programs, it offers a variety of movies. "Then she found me" is certainly no masterpiece, but it is a pleasant and heartwarming movie for a summer night, leaving the viewer with positive feelings. The cast helps in the positive perception of the story: Helen Hunt is here April, a New York schoolteacher, an almost forty year old woman, coming to terms with difficult situations and with a constantly frustrated desire of motherhood. Let's admit she is a little too haggard, and suffering, I mean, not all almost forty years old women with no children are that depressed and crabby, but she proves the good actress she always is, and she gets to convey the need to realize something in her life. The subject is probably very dear to the actress (and also director), who said this movie was ten years in the making and was probably very significant to her. Colin Firth, needless to say, would make every sensitive woman fall in love with him with just a single glance, and the role of a divorced father proves suitable for him, Bett Midler proves funny and intelligent. The script sounds sometimes a little melodramatic and unreal, but it is part of this kind of heartwarming movies. I will not spoil anything, let only say that the finale, although predictable, reveals an unexpected note, and sounds really moving.

Helen Hunt I always considered a very mediocre actress and general a miss cast in every production. I guess that makes me bias. When a bad actor is also a poor director and then casts her self as the lead character..now that is just aiming for disaster. And in all fairness it doesn't have to be, Ben Affleck: horrible actor-great director.The story, resembling a season of Days of our Lives in a nutshell doesn't become deeper than a wading pool and Hunt making painful faces makes just for a lot of smurking. On top of that character April Epner is so annoying that you don't understand why people are making any effort for her. Colin Firth looks way too young and too sparkly for his part. And although she keeps saying that she is 39, Hunt obviously is far too old for her part and looks it. Firth and Midler are playing her off the screen and wasting their talents here. Dreadful waste of time.

I rented this movie because of her co-stars as I am admittedly not particularly a Helen Hunt fan. I didn't even know the plot. Some reviewers gave this a pretty scathing review and I may be a bit biased but I thought the film was smart, funny, sad, frustrating...all the things we experience in life. The main threads in the movie also are very common in life: betrayal, anger, love, regret, redemption...woven through a cast of characters performed very, very well. I found myself drawn in to the pathos of the characters as they dealt with devastating as well as wonderful circumstances. I admit that a main topic in the film-having/adopting children is very close to my heart but I think it is a very worthwhile film and one of the few films I've seen that deals realistically with the heartbreak of wanting a baby and finding it achingly difficult. The film also handles well the complications of human relationships. Worth the watch for me as a fan of the cast. Even Hunt whom I had not seen much of but was impressed by in this role.