Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

James Dylan 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.

SnoopyStyle April Epner (Helen Hunt) is happily newly-married to Ben (Matthew Broderick). The 39-year-old teacher was adopted by Jewish mother Trudy and is desperate to have a child of her own. She hates that everybody is pushing for her to adopt. Ben leaves her and Trudy dies. Frank (Colin Firth) is the father of one of her students who is taken with her. His wife had left him to travel the globe with her boyfriend. April is contacted by her daytime talkshow host biological mother Bernice Graves (Bette Midler) who claims her father to be movie star Steve McQueen. Then April discovers that she's pregnant with Ben's baby.This is Helen Hunt's theatrical directing debut. There are some issues with flow and tone. April is a middle age Jewish New Yorker but older Helen Hunt has tended towards white trailer trash. There are opportunities for comedy especially with Midler but Hunt doesn't always play along. Hunt is better dramatically at that point. Even in Mad About You, she was the straight man and the infuriated wife. There is also a weird cameo by Salman Rushdie as the doctor. It's a little head-scratching. The role could have given small jolts of comedy but instead, it's a lot of "I didn't know he acted." Certainly, there is a workmanship to Hunt's directing but there are also issues.

anita_delre FYI, I'm female, 57 years old. I don't like predictable, romantic movies.This movie, in spite of Helen Hunt in the lead part (sorry, Helen), delivers a lovely story, very human, very shot through with vulnerability in the face of reality.Helen delivers one of the most tender performances in her career (not that I am familiar with all of her work; but from what I've seen, she kind of comes across as a tough little cookie in a stunted sorta way, right?)... yet, I really liked her in this movie. I tend to watch movies that I really like over and over, and "Then She Found Me" is one of them. And no, she doesn't abandon that toughness - that essence that Jack Nickelson captures in "As Good as It Gets": she says what she means, means what she says; something tells me HH is worth knowing: I do believe this is one of HH's strengths (as uncomfortable as it sometimes makes ME feel).The profound Jewish tale narrated in the beginning (rather shocking, and to me, mysteriously cruel), then fleshed out at the end (thank God) is one of this movie's attractions to me.I also find the outlandish behavior by its characters not unrealistic. Life is so full of surprises - what happens to us, what we can't anticipate, what we can't control. This movie delivers in so many ways that endears me, truly inciting empathy with the various characters.We humans rationalize or distort many of our decisions so they're less burdensome to carry... Bette Midler's character is outrageous in one degree, yet understandable in another. She's lived her life with a past that she can't quite own, preferring to transform it into the story she tells _____ - and most likely herself. Yet she hangs strong and determined when she's exposed; her desire to serve is greater than her desire to deceive herself......... of course there's a "selfish" motive in this - but it's the selfishness born of empty living... something greater.Colin Firth is phenomenal... can this man fail in any role? And it's kind of nice, too, that there seems to be a real chemistry between him and _____.Unless you're under 20, I think you'll find this movie rather rich and intriguing.Helen, you did a great job acting and directing. Thank you.

Sean Daniel This was like a Helen Hunt ego trip. Oh, great I found a book and I'm going to make a movie from the book. I'll star in it. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Oh wait, I'll produce it too. Oh wait, I'll write and direct it too. Is there anything else that I can do? Nope, this is my Helen Hunt movie. And so she did.SpoilerI wanted to like this movie, honestly I really did. We planned it for a Frinday night movie, my wife and I. We got blankets and pillows and prepared for an hour and a half of romance and comedy. Nothing could have been further from what we expected. It was just awful. Her infantile husband leaves her, she meets the man of her dreams and blows him off to nail her "boy" husband in her car. And it gets worse and worse and worse. She wants to get pregnant and finally does with the man of her dreams but the baby is by her ex. Great, she's having the baby she's always wanted. But the baby dies. And all this time her real mother who blew her off when she was an infant shows up and Hunt treats her like crap. Then she treats the man of her life like crap and blows him off. She treats everyone like crap. And on and on and on. What a wasted night this was.