Review of Then She Found Me (2007) by Greg K — 28 Apr 2011
The directorial debut by Helen Hunt is a very odd, Jewcentric film about love, loss and new beginnings staring the director herself.
April Epner is going through some tough times. She's almost 40, her husband left her, she wants a baby, her adoptive mother dies and all seems to be unravelling. And then her birth mother contacts her and she meets a single father, and the unravelling turns to chaos.
Being her first film, the Academy-Award-winning actress definitely shows some promise, but even with powerhouse names like Bette Midler and Oscar-winner Colin Firth, Hunt's "Then She Found Me" tries to get across a lot of points about life without quite effectively making us care. With the very odd placement of strong Jewish devotion, everything in the films just seems to slightly distract the viewer from everything else, leaving an ultimate disconnect.
When the credits role, I am sure the intention was to have offered a feeling of happiness and hope yet the ending was slightly jarring and the film just ends with the viewer not having any lingering emotion but thinking, "uh, ok, what should I watch next?".
Not a bad film, but it is simply forgettable.
This review of Then She Found Me (2007) was written by Greg K on 28 Apr 2011.
Then She Found Me has generally received mixed reviews.
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