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Summary:
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 o... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Helen Hunt - (April Epner)
Bette Midler - (Bernice Graves)
Colin Firth - (Frank Harte)
Matthew Broderick - (Benjamin 'Ben' Green)
Ben Shenkman - (Dr. Freddy Epner)
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Review:
As a first-time co-writer/director, Helen Hunt carries a strength untouched even by many filmmakers with 20- or 30-year histories in the business: the ability to swiftly navigate her actors through emotionally complex sequences, layered with the behavioral contradictions and uncertainties of real life. Consequently, numerous sequences in Hunt}... Continue >>

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