This film is directed by Helen Hunt, which makes sense, as she plays the 39 year-old "love interest" of Matthew Broderick and Colin Firth. Sadly, and no offense to Ms. Hunt, but viewers would have to be on drugs to see her as 39 years-old. In the film she looks much closer to 55. I would have enjoyed the film much more if the actor had been somewhat younger looking, and a bit more attractive. It's just a bit hard to imagine Matthew Broderick and Colin Firth fighting over Helen Hunt. Also, the woman she plays isn't the most delightful person, and I applauded Broderick's character dumping her in the first few minutes of the film. Much like I was happy Tom Hank's character was stuck on an island for years in Cast Away and avoided marriage to Helen Hunt's character. Lucky bastard.Anyway...the film is a chick-flick, and I watched it with a chick, who agreed that both the leading men would not be fighting over someone who looks like Helen Hunt, and especially not with her sour-puss, cheerless, sad-sack, basset hound attitude. Actually it's a bit of a boring film.

April Epner, a nearly 40-year old Jewish woman, is going through a crisis in her life.Her husband Ben leaves her and her adoptive mother dies.Then a talk show host called Bernice Graves is introduced to her as her biological mother.And she meets a new man named Frank at the school she teaches his two children.Then She Found Me (2007) is the directorial debut by actress Helen Hunt.She gives a great performance in the lead as April Epner.Bette Midler is terrific as Bernice Graves.Colin Firth is marvelous as Frank.Matthew Broderick, who turned 50 a couple of months ago, does very nice work as Ben Green.Ben Shenkman is great as Dr. Freddy Epner.Salman Rushdie, who is better known as a writer, does very good work as Dr. Samani.Lynn Cohen plays April's adoptive mother Trudy, and she's very good.As themselves in this movie are seen Janeane Garofalo, Tim Robbins and Edie Falco.This is a nice, yet flawed movie.The drama of it works pretty good, it's quite moving.But it doesn't go out to make some movie history.It doesn't succeed in rising above mediocrity.But it's a pretty nice little movie that proves Helen Hunt can also direct.

Browsing through netflix's instant play collection and getting increasingly frustrated by the minute, I suddenly saw this movie cover with well-known faces and a promising storyline. So confident was I that I did not even bother with the reviews. Well it isn't a bad movie but one should not really rely entirely on just the cover and the storyline..I kind of understand what Helen Hunt intended to do - make a realistic movie with a comic touch. However the only real part of the movie was Helen Hunt's sans makeup, tired and anemic face staring at us..I am all for breaking the sex symbol norm in Hollywood...But her look would have been more appropriate had the character in the movie just survived the holocaust or was recovering from cancer.Moving on...the movie has too many central themes - helen hunt's character wants a baby but wait - her husband leaves her so she gets into a rebound relationship with a handsome but childish Brit...no it's about her getting pregnant .. Hold on.. it's that she suddenly gets to know her birth mother...Ummm confused? So is poor Helen - constantly ,all throughout the movie. For someone who wanted to break the makeup norm in Hollywood..how about breaking the cliché of middle aged American women always looking confused and attractive men finding it endearing?..The parts of her with Bette Midler start off neither funny , nor striking but get much better and start to make sense.Their chemistry isn't quite there but there are some good moments..mostly credited to Midler... as a matter of fact the second half seems more genuine than the first half ... Colin,Broderick even Midler and Hunt all stay in their comfort zones..no one is stretched beyond..It was like everyone wanted to add that extra but was asked not to..It isn't exactly an excellent director debut for Hunt but she will probably get there someday..

The actors are great in this movie, and believable. I LOVED this movie, there were some great moments happening in this movie and I loved the ending. I would watch it more than once and might see if I could purchase it on DVD. Helen Hunt is still a great actress, I enjoyed watching her in this movie as much as I did in "As Good As It Gets" with Jack Nicholson!!! Bette Midler, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick were also showed their greatness in this movie. Helen Hunt shows her multi-talented qualities by directing and acting. Now a days there aren't to many movies that you can watch and at the end of them have a good feeling about life afterward, this is one of them!!!!!