Then She Found Me was scheduled to screen at the Toronto Film Festival on

September 6, 2007.

"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).

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).

Elinor Lipman's  blog here

10 September 2006 - A day at the set - by Phil (Phil's Spin Zone)

Directed by:
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt and Colin Firth

Full credits here

Country: USA 

Language: English 

Color: Color 

Cast: