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THEN SHE FOUND ME
Rated R
Helen Hunt, Better Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen

Brian’s Rating       

While I can't rave about Then She Found Me, there's a lot to like about Helen Hunt's directorial debut and enough to keep most movie lovers satisfied.

First, the movie gets right down to business, which is important in a film that has so many plot developments. We learn quickly  that our heroine wants to have a baby and that this desire is consuming her existence.

In short order, we meet her milquetoast husband, her badgering adoptive mother, her birth mother, and a new suitor and the action doesn't stop after that.

Moments of despair frequently overpower the film and keeps it from being the lighthearted comedy we might have hoped for, but there are serious issues in play and perhaps the story and the players are served by these touches of tragedy.

Even if you've seen the trailers, you'll find Then She Found Me anything but predictable.