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Helen Hunt Pens, Directs and Stars in "Then She Found Me" with Midler
and Broderick
By Ernio Hernandez
26 Dec 2007
Stage and screen actress Helen Hunt adapted, directed and stars in the
forthcoming film "Then She Found Me." Bette Midler, Colin Firth,
Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen and Ben Shenkman will also be seen in
the new motion picture.
The Blue Rider Pictures-ThinkFilm project is set to be released April
25, 2008. The R-rated, 100-minute feature was screened at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
Based on the Elinor Lipman novel of the same title, Hunt, Vic Levin
and Alice Arlen penned the screenplay that centers on the "story of
schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards
personal fulfillment," according to production notes.
"Following the separation from her husband (Broderick) and the death
of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth month
(sic) (Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice
Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was
never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent
of one of her students (Firth), only to find that the mystery to
life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation."
Hunt (Life x 3), who makes her diretorial (sic) debut with the film,
leads a cast that also features Midler, Firth (Three Days of Rain -
London), Broderick (The Producers), Cohen (Ivanov) and Shenkman
(Proof).
As an actress, Hunt most recently appeared on Broadway in 2003 in
Yasmina Reza's Life x 3. Other stage credits include Broadway's
Twelfth Night, Our Town and the 1990 Public Theater "Shakespeare in
the Park" staging of The Taming of the Shrew. She is best known for
her screen turns in "As Good as It Gets," "Twister," "What Women
Want," "Cast Away," "Bobby" and television's "Mad About You."
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