Then She Found Me (SPP September 2006)
Director: Helen Hunt (Mad About You)
Writer: Helen Hunt, from an original novel by Elinor Lipman
Producers: Christine Vachon Pamela Koffler Katie Roumel (Far From Heaven, One Hour Photo, Boys Don’t Cry), Connie Tavel, Helen Hunt
Cast: Helen Hunt (Academy Award® and Golden Globe winner As Good As It Gets, What Women Want, Twister, multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mad About You) Bette Midler (Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner The Rose and For the Boys, The First Wives Club, The Stepford Wives) Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Love Actually, Girl With a Pearl Earring, The English Patient)
The feature film debut of Helen Hunt is the funny and moving story of April Epner, and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. April, 39, who will be played by Ms. Hunt, is a schoolteacher in New York, who was adopted at birth. The fact that she never knew her birth mother makes her desire to have a baby of her own that much stronger. When her sweet but immature husband Ben announces one night that their marriage was a mistake, April is bewildered and devastated. Soon after, her adoptive mother, whom April has been nursing through illness, dies. With her life in disarray, confused and grieving, April is unprepared for the force of nature that blows into her life. Bernice Graves, to be played by Bette Midler, is a 50-something local talk show host. Seductive, unpredictable, loving, enraging Bernice shows up one day, declaring that she is April’s birth mother and turns April’s world upside down.
