• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 04/25/2008
  • Running Time: 100 mins
  • Director: Helen Hunt
  • Cast: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Cherise Boothe, John Benjamin Hickey, Tommy Nelson, Ben Shenkman, Florence Annequin
  • Producer: Connie Tavel, Helen Hunt, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler
  • Writer: Victor Levin, Helen Hunt, Alice Arlen
  • Distributor: ThinkFilm
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Tropic Thunder, 14.6 million, 86.9 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Babylon A.D., 11.5 million, 11.5 million
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  6. The Dark Knight, 11.1 million, 504.8 million
  7. The House Bunny, 10.2 million, 29.7 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Traitor, 10.0 million, 11.5 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Death Race, 7.9 million, 24.7 million
  13. Disaster Movie, 6.9 million, 6.9 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 5.4 million, 132.5 million
  17. Pineapple Express, 4.4 million, 80.8 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 3.8 million, 30.7 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Then She Found Me

First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40 (Hunt herself turns 45 this year, but never mind that). Adapted by Hunt and two other writers from Elinor Lipman’s novel, it’s a not surprisingly confident debut; Hunt directs like she acts—straightforward and without humor, even when she’s meant to be funny. Which is probably why this plays like such an odd hybrid: a sitcom pilot rendered as Lifetime melodrama and starring the likes of Matthew Broderick (as her husband and, no kidding, an irresistible man-child), Colin Firth (as the single-dad love interest), and Bette Midler (as the famous mother who gave Hunt’s character up for adoption when she was a year old). Broderick’s broad, doughy, and dopey—not at all believable as The Guy Everyone Wants to Fuck. But Firth’s terrific, and Midler’s, well, Midler—you keep expecting her to break into song. Even if you didn’t know who directed going in, you’d know coming out; Hunt gives herself more close-ups than Norma Desmond (and Barbra Streisand—no small feat). In short, it’s the kind of film that only a mother, which is to say my mother, would love. — Robert Wilonsky

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