Then She Found Me (2007)

*** Then She Found Me is schuduled to screen at the Toronto Film Festival on

September 6, 2007. It is scheduled to debut in Dutch theatres on

Valentine's Day (Feb. 14) 2008.***

"Then She Found Me" is the funny and moving story of April Epner and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. April, 39 (Helen Hunt) is a New York school teacher who, although adopted at birth, has been blessed with all the familial love and support she could have wished for. Her body-clock and the fact that she never knew her birth mother, combine to make her desire to have a baby of her own, that much stronger. When she marries Ben (Matthew Broderick) it seems that she may just get what she has been yearning for. However, when her sweet but immature husband announces one night that their marriage was a mistake April is bewildered and devastated. Soon after, her adoptive mother (Diane Keaton), whom April has been nursing through illness, dies. With her life thrown into total disarray, confused and grieving, April is unprepared for the force of nature that blows into her life, her birth mother (Bette Midler) and a relationship with the father of one of her students (Colin Firth).

Alice Arlen wrote the first adaptation of Lipman's novel. Vic Levin and Hunt rewrote it and then Hunt did the final polish.

Shooting on the film has just begun in Brooklyn (September 2006).

Helen Hunt and Colin Firth

July 2007

Then She Found Me, the filmmaking debut for the Academy Award-winning actress, will play at September's Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie stars Hunt as a New York City schoolteacher whose commonplace life suddenly grows complicated after her husband (Matthew Broderick) leaves her, the mother (Bette Midler) she never knew comes into her life, and she begins a relationship with a student's father (Colin Firth).

Photos FirthFreak at L.J. 11-09-2006

"Colin Firth and Helen Hunt

Photos thanks to MishluvsCF

Filming was on 97th St. off 4th in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, at St. Patrick's Catholic school.

(Phil's Spin Zone)

Directed by:
Helen Hunt

Writing credits (in alphabetical order):
Elinor Lipman	Book
Alice Arlen	First adaption
Helen Hunt	Screenplay
Vic Levin	Screenplay

Full credits here

Country: USA

Language: English

Color: Color

Cast:

Matthew Broderick	Ben
Lynn Cohen	Trudy
Colin Firth	Frank
John Benjamin Hickey	Alan
Helen Hunt	April Epner
Bette Midler	Bernice Graves
Tommy Nelson	Jimmy Ray
Ben Shenkman	Freddy (brother)