Then She Found Me (2007)

Directed by Helen Hunt · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman, Lynn Cohen, John Benjamin Hickey, Salman Rushdie, Daisy Tahan, Tommy Nelson, Stephanie Yankwitt, Lillias White, David Callegati, Kenneth Stern, Robert LuPone, Chris Chalk, Alexa Scott-Flaherty, Marina Durell, Sadie Heston, Stephanie Berry, Lauren Klein, Cherise Boothe, Doug Hughes, Chelsea Altman, Stacie Linardos, Jordan Thaler, Michael Harder, Geneva Carr, Maryann Urbano, Maggie Siff, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Robbins, Edie Falco

IHBM7 IMDb5.9 RT50% MC56 Trakt61% TMDb5.7Good

A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.

My review · Reviewed 02/22/2026

While this movie is a bit uneven, it really is a sneaky-good film. In the hands of a different director, this probably would have been another stupid comedy. But the movie has surprising depth, and the chemistry between the leads is excellent. I particularly enjoyed Midler's character - it would have been easy to make her one-dimensional and focus more on the Hunt's character, but that didn't happen. The film works best as a drama, and it earned the final scene.