Then She Found Me
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Movie Reviews of Then She Found Me
Movie Review: head and shoulders above
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is way above the category of "entertainment" though it has some entertaining moments. Without spoiling the story it is about betrayals, both real and imputed, both small and cosmic, and a way to step beyond living in anger, fear, and self doubt. It was written and produced on a minimal budget by Helen Hunt. Her writing and re-writing of the screenplay took nearly ten years. This should not be taken as an indication of Hunt being a poor writer, but quite the reverse. It some ways the screen play was over-written particularly relative to a popular audience. It is a rich example of psychological literature done as a film. It is in essence a version of the Rapunzel story, the adult version not the trite nonsense usually offered to children. Firth plays in effect the blinded Prince. It is one of the very, very few contexts that address the prevalence of the puerella pattern of behavior, beyond the more familiar As Helen described the process in the features she took the lead role, just because it was an easier thing to do than to explain what she wanted from another actor. As an actor and producer and director she does an outstanding job with a difficult story. The richness of the roles performed by both Bette Midler and Colin Firth are also well above average. This film deserves the widest exposure possible. She deserves the resources to direct and produce a much more expansive movie, but will not likely get it due to profitability of entertaining us to death and to stupor. It addresses the rites of passage of both the puer and the puella, and those who embrace the transition and those that hide from it. After watching it I was in a daze thinking about its segments for several days, and then I had to watch it again, and then again. The title has potentially multiple references. Her re-interpretation of the old Jewish teaching story which frames the story is also amazing. This is a rare movie and deserves to be used in social psychology and social problems classes as required viewing. It will also strike you at your core and possibly change your life. I regret that anyone would presume to rate this work as solely a piece of entertainment or visual narcotic. First and foremost it is raw pathos of the highest level. It will make you uncomfortable, and that is a very, good thing.Movie Review: AN OVER LOOKED GEM
Summary: 5 Stars
The plot line of this movie reads like a soap opera script but the acting saved it from being one. Bette Midler did a great job of reigning herself in and every other actor is just as great. This film is a great accomplishment for Helen Hunt, who starred in and directed (her debut) this movie.
It tells the story of a 39 y.o. woman (April) whose sole focus is to have a child before it is too late. As she herself is adopted, she desperately wants to have a child of her own. As in real life, things do not go exactly as planned. This film was fun to watch despite the kleenex staged moments.
The thing that struck me the most was the ending. As an adopted child, April was determined to have her own flesh and blood and adoption was not an option. She felt that there was a difference between herself and her mother versus her mother and her biological child. The resolution was a beautiful sight to behold. We learn so much more about our own parents when we become parents ourselves, no matter how we get there. Too often we learn things about our parents when it is too late.
Movie Review: This movie stayed on my mind days after seeing it...
Summary: 5 Stars
Admitedly, I am a fan of Helen. I was a 13 year old shy teenager who just happened to do community theatre with Helen. My school teacher had convinced my mother somehow that acting would help me with my shyness. Well, the director screaming at the top of her lungs at me to "PRO-JECT!!" did not. To this day I am grateful to Helen for being the sweet, thoughtful 13 year old that she was on the day I ran bawling to the hide in the bathroom.
As a person who has seen her life change permanently and very dramatically overnight, I could relate. April Epner was real and when the movie ended, I found myself wondering what happened next.
After watching about 5 minutes of the movie, I called my mother who lives in another state, and told her to pay full price, but go out and get this movie NOW.
The 4 main characters each have warmth, depth, intelligence and humor. It is a beautiful heartfelt story without the sticky sweet and plasticness.
If this is what a Helen Hunt movie is like, sign me up for the future ones!
Movie Review: Life is Complicated
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an absorbing movie, and drew tears toward its conclusion. The best word to describe the movie and its point of view is "complicated." People do the wrong things for the right reasons, or the right things for wrong reasons and so on.
In brief, Helen Hunt directs and stars in the only DVD I know of that explores the deep emotions of a woman who wants a child while her mind and heart are complicated by three different abandonments: she was given away by her birth mother (Bette Midler) and is adopted; her new husband (Matthew Broderick) leaves her after a very short period; and she loses her first baby, all while driving away a serious (complicated) man (Colin Firth).
Make-up is to be praised, I have never seen Helen Hunt look so drawn and aged and "wanting."
The actors are all great, with Hunt and Firth being the featured actors and Broderick (the perfect Jewish mama's boy) and Middler being supporting actors.
An excellent,thoughtful, complicated story told very very well.
Movie Review: an extraordinary film
Summary: 5 Stars
Then She Found Me is an astonishingly moving, hilariously funny movie. Had Bette Midler been lucky enough to be directed by Helen Hunt early in her career, she would actually have a movie career. The acting, on all counts, is gloriously, painfully, earth-shatteringly real. Helen Hunt's direction is flawless, and she is clearly able to get performances from actors that I suspect they did not know they were capable of.
I borrowed the DVD from a friend, and after I watched it, I walked over to my computer and ordered it because I knew this was a film I'd want to watch again. When it arrived a few days later, I watched it again, and laughed and cried harder than I did the first time. Then She Found Me is a breathtaking film, one to watched and savored for its heartfelt emotions, honest humor, and depth of feeling..