Then She Found Me

THINKFilm | Release Date: April 25, 2008

4.8	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Ratings

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ChadS.Apr 24, 2008

April Epner(Helen Hunt) may be the first child, but her brother Freddy(Ben Shenkman) is the first born. Does he pull rank and relegate his adoptive sister to the status of auxiliary Epner? That's what April thinks. That's what all April Epner(Helen Hunt) may be the first child, but her brother Freddy(Ben Shenkman) is the first born. Does he pull rank and relegate his adoptive sister to the status of auxiliary Epner? That's what April thinks. That's what all adopted children think, at one time or another. As fate would have it, April's biological clock is winding down just like her stepmother; like mother, like daughter, which only proves that blood is nothing more than a formality. Trudy advises April to adopt; like mother, like daughter, but the thirty-nine-year-old woman doesn't want to. The final rebuke by an insecure daughter, revenge. We hurt the ones we love, and then it's too late. Before April embarks on a new chapter in her life with Bernice(Bette Midler), she needs proof that Trudy(Lynn Cohen) loved her like a first born, too. This is the meat of "Then She Found Me", but a disproportionate amount of time is spent on her love mishaps, which would've been fine if the filmmaker had a flair for romantic comedy. She doesn't. Ben(Matthew Broderick) has comic possibilities, mostly gone unexplored, and Frank(Colin Firth) is just cranky, a bore. But "Then She Found Me" rallies itself to a satisfactory conclusion, as April discovers that her mother was right; DNA has nothing on love. The look on April's face says it all: like mother, like daughter.… Expand