THEN SHE FOUND ME
Directed by Helen Hunt
United States, 100 mins.
Comedy/Drama
Friday, 6:30 PM, Salem Cinema
Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, finds a lovely balance between the comic, drama and romance. In a delicately layered performance, Hunt also stars as April, a New York school teacher who encounters one stumbling block after another in her determined path toward fulfilling her desire to have a baby. Adopted at birth, April, nearing forty, faltering in her crumbling marriage to the bumbling but naïve Ben, hears her biological clock ticking louder with each passing day. Caught up in a flurry of events that leads her to the door of a brassy, over-the-top talk show host claiming to be her birth mother and also into the company of the handsome, wary single father of one of her students, April begins to realize that it’s the spiraling, messy moments that make up, and she slowly starts to loosen her reins. With its superb performances by Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Colin Firth, this endearing story unfolds to reveal they way in which we create families, both by blood and by choice.
Filmography: First Feature
Awards: Palm Springs International Film Festival Audience Award
Showing with the short film
Expecting
Directed by Chuck Bennett
United States, 7 mins.
Filmmaker Chuck Bennett in attendance!A pregnant woman and her hubby watch with mounting concern as their doctor calls for assistance to get a second opinion on their ultrasound. The couple is devastated to discover the grim news that their baby will be born…gasp...unattractive.
Chuck Bennett (Director of Expecting)
Before directing commercials, Chuck Bennett won scores of advertising awards as an art director and creative director at various high profile Los Angeles advertising agencies. Chuck was one of the
first directors selected to shoot a short film for the coveted Sony Dreams Project, screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002 and in 2003, he launched his own production company, Big Lawn Films. Chuck’s directorial work can best be described as visual storytelling with a humanistic comedic twist. As an advertising junkie, Chuck identifies the heart of a message and delivers the distinctive blend of elements necessary to engage and entertain the targeted viewer.
