Synopsis

Release Date: 04/25/2008
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedy drama
Director: Helen Hunt
Cast: Helen Hunt , Bette Midler , Colin Firth , Matthew Broderick

Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt) whose long-lost birth mother (Bette Midler) reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis. Abandoned by her husband (Matthew Broderick) and still grieving the death of her adoptive mother, the emotionally fragile teacher enters into a relationship with the father of one of her students just as her biological mother, an eccentric talk-show host, appears on her doorstep attempting a reconciliation.

What Critics Say

Helen Hunt tries to prove she can do it all--co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring--in this heartfelt dramedy about a schoolteacher in mid-life crisis. It’s not "as good as it gets" but commendable nonetheless.

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