James Dylan This film is directed by Helen Hunt, which makes sense, as she plays the 39 year-old "love interest" of Matthew Broderick and Colin Firth. Sadly, and no offense to Ms. Hunt, but viewers would have to be on drugs to see her as 39 years-old. In the film she looks much closer to 55. I would have enjoyed the film much more if the actor had been somewhat younger looking, and a bit more attractive. It's just a bit hard to imagine Matthew Broderick and Colin Firth fighting over Helen Hunt. Also, the woman she plays isn't the most delightful person, and I applauded Broderick's character dumping her in the first few minutes of the film. Much like I was happy Tom Hank's character was stuck on an island for years in Cast Away and avoided marriage to Helen Hunt's character. Lucky bastard.Anyway...the film is a chick-flick, and I watched it with a chick, who agreed that both the leading men would not be fighting over someone who looks like Helen Hunt, and especially not with her sour-puss, cheerless, sad-sack, basset hound attitude. Actually it's a bit of a boring film.

D Paterson-Watts Beautifully acted, Hunt and Firth both shine in portraying the difficult situations that their characters are faced with. The film doesn't shy away from the reality that life is imperfect, as are humans. Both main characters are deeply flawed, but they are also both wonderful in their own way. Midler shines and adds many comic moments.All in all, from a film which we expected little, this film made us feel and sympathise deeply for the characters, and deserves a far higher rating than it's been given, if only for the fact that it shys away from certain Hollywood rubbish...when the characters are sad and at the point of breaking, there is no make up and it lets you see them as they would be...Ultimately, if you consider yourself an empath, then watch this film, it will reward you handsomely

John Raymond Peterson Most moviegoers have seen Helen Hunt's Oscar winning role as Carol the waitress in "As Good As It Gets"; after all the movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards, two of which (best male and female actors) it won, not to mention countless other awards. In "Then She Found Me", her April Epner character much reminded me of Carol the waitress. Here she plays a school teacher going through a much more trying period of her life than Carol did, and even more than that of her character Jeannie in the 2010 movie "Every Day", a film I raved about in an earlier review this year. She also directed "Then She Found Me" with a cast I'm sure she appreciated, which included Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick. I did not know that Salman Rushdie did any acting, yet to my surprise, he did okay as Hunt's gynaecologist. Colin Firth's character Frank played Hunt's love interest; that couple was as unlikely as the Nicholson-Hunt match. Frank is a neurotic father of two young children and estranged from his wife who left him for a life a debauchery which of course was the source of his barely manageable neurosis. That love interest is volatile and passionate. Oh, what a delight to watch it was to me. I took a liking to Shawn Colvin's music in this movie.

SageLibra1974 I sat in teary, stunned silence at the end of this film. Thank God I was home and thank God I was alone. This is a STUNNING performance by Helen Hunt (who also adapted it and directed it). There simply isn't any actress, anywhere at any time, who could dare to even dream of portraying this character as well as Helen Hunt. This character completely encompasses almost everything an actress can possibly give of herself and Helen is "pure perfection" within this role. Helen portrays April with the most stunning depth, layers upon layers of truth and emotion and the tribulations of life every day. Bravo... this film and this character will, with no hesitation, turn into one of the great classics of our time.April Epner (Helen Hut) is a compelling and profoundly deep woman. She is compassionate and filled with a painful sadness...a sadness that is never fully explained. She is amazingly beautiful, physically and emotionally, and is brokenly languishing after the death of her mother and the sudden breakup of her marriage. She is not only a school teacher, but an exquisitely gifted one. She truly cares deeply for the children she teaches so lovingly...but she has no children of her own. She desperately wishes for her own...She has been betrayed...from the time she was born. Simply from watching this woman in this short snippet of time within her life, the viewer gets the feeling April Epner has been betrayed over and over during her lifetime. The betrayal purely emanates from her. To state anything more of this character would be only a desperate attempt to say something I fear would end up meaningless... If you are reading this right now, it is imperative you give yourself the true pleasure of seeing this masterpiece of a film...full of life and love and pain, pain of every description imaginable. It will move your soul and it may even change you. It absolutely changed me... I hope beyond all hope Helen Hunt is able to make more films!