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Then She Found Me

Nearing 40, April Epner (Hunt), a schoolteacher in New York who was adopted at birth, wants to have a baby of her own - a desire made that much stronger by the fact that she never knew her biological mother. A snag in her plans presents itself when her sweet but immature husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) announces one night that their marriage was a mistake, leaving April devastated and bewildered. With her life in disarray, one more surprising bolt is thrown April's way in the form of Bernice (Bette Midler), an eccentric local talk show host, who declares herself to be April's birth mother. Despite the influence of her newfound mother and a relationship with Frank (Colin Firth), the father of one of her students, April's once simple life begins to spiral out of control.

Based on the eponymous first novel by writer Elinor Lipman, the film tells the funny and moving story of one woman's very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment.

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Release Date: April 25, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance and Adaptation
Running Time: 100 min.
Distributor(s): ThinkFilm
Tagline: A thoroughly modern woman in a thoroughly modern crisis
MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual content.

Director(s):
Helen Hunt

Writer(s):
Victor Levin - screenplay (rewrite)
Helen Hunt - screenplay (rewrite)
Alice Arlen - screenplay
Elinor Lipman - Source Material (from novel: "Then She Found Me")

Producer(s):
Ralph Kamp - Executive Producer
Louise Goodsill - Executive Producer
John Wells - Executive Producer
Walter Josten - Executive Producer
Jeff Geoffray - Executive Producer
Chip Signore - Executive Producer
Victor Levin - Executive Producer
Connie Tavel - Producer
Helen Hunt - Producer
Christine Vachon - Producer
Pamela Koffler - Producer
Katie Roumel - Producer
Matthew Myers - Co-Producer

Movie Casts:
Helen Hunt - April Epner
Colin Firth - Frank
Bette Midler - Bernice Graves
Matthew Broderick - Ben
Lynn Cohen - Trudy
Ben Shenkman - Freddy
Floanne Ankah - Production assistant (as Florence Annequin)
Cherise Boothe - Mother #1
David Callegati - Gianni
Geneva Carr - Talk show guest
Chris Chalk - Orderly
Brother Eden Douglas - Penthouse Benefit Guest (as Brother Douglas)
Audrey Elizabeth Fafard - Penthouse host
John Benjamin Hickey - Alan
Rachel Konstantin - April's cousin
Stacie Linardos - Anne
Andy Miller - Limo Driver
Tommy Nelson - Jimmy Ray
Jonathan Roumie - Partygoer
Salman Rushdie - Dr. Masani
Maggie Siff - Girlfriend
Rabbi Kenneth Stern - Rabbi
Daisy Tahan - Ruby
Schuster Vance - Husband at PTA meeting
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