Then She Found Me
THINKFilm | Release Date: April 25, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
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90
VarietyJoe Leydon
A smart, subtle and seriously funny dramedy bound to find favor with sophisticated auds. Read full review
80
The New YorkerDavid Denby
With the screenwriters Alice Arlen and Victor Levin, Hunt adapted the story from a 1990 novel by Elinor Lipman, and has turned the material into a fine, tense, unpredictable comedy of mixed-up emotions and sudden illuminations. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
The new movie shrieks of motherhood - raising hot-button issues like biological clocks running down, the rights of birth mothers and whether to adopt or give artificial insemination a shot. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyClark Collis
Hunt's movie-directing debut frequently crackles with nice gags. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
This is Hunt's show, and she delivers a strong performance that captures all the seriousness and absurdity of the avalanche of circumstances that comes crashing down on April's head. To say she's only half the director she is an actress is actually paying her quite a complement. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
While there are plenty of laughs, Hunt doesn't play this for farce. Even Midler gives perhaps the most restrained, and arguably the most winning, performance of her screen career. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
A strength of Then She Found Me, from Elinor Lipman's novel, is its straightforward, uncomplicated storytelling that keeps the threads untangled and blends the everyday and the absurd with natural ease. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore
With subtle laughs but solid emotional thrust, it will play very well with older audiences. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Then She Found Me, a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
There's something about Hunt's put-upon persona that grates, and it would be nice to see her for once in a role that doesn't call on her to be so angry, short-tempered and disappointed all the time...Still, all in all, Then She Found Me is a warm, entertaining and well-made little movie and an auspicious debut for Hunt the director. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Some may dismiss Then She Found Me as a mere "women's film," but it's really a more honest and mature take on sex and the city. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
While Hunt's directing debut is promising, if understated, it's her performance as schoolteacher April Epner that impresses the audience. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
What ought to be a bittersweet movie about a woman's momentary unraveling feels like a workout class: Cardio melodrama. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
There are some wise observations about parenting. Hunt draws some good performances from the cast and wisely chose a low-key personal story for her directorial debut. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
The plot, as hinted, goes strictly by the "How April Got Her Groove Back" book, but it must be said that the performances push it a notch above pedestrian. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
This whole movie has zero chemistry. Broderick and Hunt are a match made in hell; Firth and Hunt are a match made in limbo. Read full review
50
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
In short, it's the kind of film that only a mother, which is to say my mother, would love. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
With Midler missing in action much of the time, the film drowns in a sea of thudding earnestness. Read full review
50
NewsweekDavid Ansen
There's a quirky, honest movie struggling to emerge from Then She Found Me (April's Jewish heritage is refreshingly portrayed, and there are lovely, scattered moments when the characters surprise you), but Hunt, in her directorial debut, can't seem to decide whether she'd rather make a spicy ethnic dish or bland comfort food. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
No, there isn't anything wrong with comfort entertainment. Then She Found Me could have, should have been something special - a "Knocked Up" for weary boomers. The only hitch is that it isn't all that entertaining. Nor comforting for that matter. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The material is so charged that it threatens to electrocute any who would touch it. Yet from the moment that Bette Midler, as Bernice the bio-Mom, appears, she becomes the instrument of its emotional release, catharsis teetering on high heels. Read full review
40
Washington PostJohn Anderson
Suffers from, if anything, a lack of pure confidence in the story, the actors or the audience. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Has some nice moments, but it feels very much like a first film. The pacing is off, and the cast members appear to be acting in completely different projects. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Hunt's crabby performance weighs on the film, though it's nothing compared to Colin Firth's scenery-chewing turn as her self-lacerating new beau. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This is the sort of movie that gives "chick flicks" a bad name. It's a cross between inept melodrama and a bad sit-com. Read full review
30
Film ThreatMatthew Sorrento
Overall, the film is lost and never found. In her first shot as director, Hunt seems direction-less. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A bizarre, overcooked broth that combines a broad sitcom style (the banter goes rat-tat-tat like a steam drill) with a preposterous succession of plot complications, plus solemn questions of identity, adoption and the nature of happiness. Read full review
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