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GreenCine Daily - ”Then She Found Me, a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment,” writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. “The directorial debut of Helen Hunt, who plays April Epner, an anxious 39-year-old kindergarten teacher in New York City, it has all the ingredients of a slick, commercial farce, which it emphatically is not.”
“A movie about a woman in her late 30s who is desperate to have a baby is a hard sell in the male teen-oriented movie environment of today, or so the story goes in nearly every mainstream media outlet, including this one,” notes the Los Angeles Times’ Carina Chocano. “[D]efying all laws of probability and presumed palatability, this week offers up two such movies - one a bright, broad comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and another a narrower, flintier movie starring Helen Hunt and Bette Midler. Despite the appearance of Midler, Then She Found Me treats the subject more dramatically, likening the desire to have a child to hunger, thirst or the urge to relieve oneself - all three longings that will make anyone cranky, Hunt especially. The problem isn’t so much the character of April as it is the way Hunt plays her - a little too whiny, a little too angry to be very sympathetic.”
“Hunt and Midler are both underrated actresses, and though their conviction is obvious, their characters’ propensity to blather is neither unique nor justified, simply psychotic - a transparent attempt on the filmmakers’ parts to make this melodrama about motherhood and surrogacy seem less conventional and unspectacular than it really is,” writes Ed Gonzalez in Slant.
“It’s a romantic comedy, it’s a mother-daughter drama, and most importantly, it’s an unpretentious, gentle, moving film,” writes Marcy Dermansky… [Full Story]
