'Then She Found Me' Review

Helen Hunt, left, and Bette Midler star in Hunt's directorial debut.  Watch the trailer: http://movies.aol.com/movie/then-she-found-me/25660/main

   This weekend it was only Mom & me for the movie since Wifey had to work all day at an annual event. The choices were limited since some movies I wanted to see are no longer playing. Although Mom loved going to Las Vegas with Dad, the trailer for What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher looked mediocre. We passed on that one and found this film.

    Kudos to Helen Hunt who co-wrote the screenplay as well as starring and making her directorial debut with this small but charming film that will probably not find a large audience. She plays a teacher who's being dumped by her Mama's Boy of a husband played so well by Matthew Broderick, still with his babyish face and whiny voice that fit his role. They are having trouble conceiving and she doesn't want to adopt since she was adopted and wants her own baby. One final moment of misplaced passion leaves her pregnant and the unexpected arrival of a TV hostess (Bette Midler supplying the laughs) who claims to be her mother add to the confusion.  Thrown in a blooming romance with a student's divorced father (Colin Firth, a subdued version of his Mr. Darcy) and you wonder how she keeps her sanity in this sea of confusion.

    All the performances hit their marks but this is Hunt's show. She lets others carry their weight without hogging the screen. How the plot spins around her predicaments is nicely balanced without everything come crashing down on her head demonstrates her triple threat skills.