Then She Found Me (2007)

Too much of everything

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Best movie of this year hands down!

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

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I thought I was a fan of Colin Firth but found that NOW I am a fan. I had no trouble believing he was his character. I think he expressed the confused and conflicting emotions that his trauma would create. Helen Hunt was in her element playing an intelligent emotional woman. I have loved Bette Midler since The Divine Miss M show in the 70's and she was stellar again. I enjoyed Ben Shenkmen quite a bit especially since the last pic I saw him in was Must Love Dogs where he played the shallow misogynist so well. I think if you are a fan of any of the cast and/or like movies that have points that relate to the real world it is well worth your 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.

When I borrowed this film from my local library I was hoping it would live up to the abilities of its promising cast (Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth & Matthew Broderick), and yet it took me a while to actually sit down and view it. Fortunately it turned out to be funny and endearing.I read in the beginning credits that it was based on a novel and it looks like Helen Hunt (as director), along with the screenwriters, were able to effectively glean the comedic elements from the story. The film's achievement is portraying the swirling emotions of its central characters without becoming too cloying or desperate.In terms of the actors, Bette Midler is especially memorable as a woman who fumbles into territory that for her, up to this point in her life, is seemingly uncharted. Colin Firth is messy and lovable, Matthew Broderick, pathetic and a bit lost. And Helen Hunt proves herself as a capable director while depicting a woman searching for her own sense of fulfillment. There were moments while watching this that I laughed out loud and other moments when I cried -- this amounts to some of my criteria that makes a movie ultimately worth seeing.

I love women who age gracefully and Helen Hunt is certainly one of them - letting all of her wrinkles become part of her character but honestly why on earth would she try to play a 39 year old woman when she is 46? I am 36 and find this highly offensive to put a woman who is very wrinkled (and laden down with all kinds of emotional baggage) in the role of a 39 year old. I know 39 is not exactly young but I don't know any 39 year old with as many deep wrinkles as Helen Hunt - I just think it puts across a really bad image for women - whiny, desperate and ugly.Also, what on earth was Colin Firth doing in that film? And why on earth did they make him play a mentally unstable sad father - there is no way that he would ever be like that - it just does not suit his character. Should have got someone like Nicolas Cage to do it and it may have been half believable. Also their relationship was completely ridiculous and why did he keep saying she was so beautiful when clearly she was ugly inside and out?And poor Matthew Broderick - made to look like a blubbering fool - has it really come to this for him?The only highight of the film was the wonderful Babs but she just kept getting treated appallingly by the god awful Helen Hunt character. A whiny New Yorker might have been funny in an 80's TV show but honestly, I think we've all moved on from then. Pity Helen Hunt hasn't.