Variety
Hunt finds cast trio for helming debut
Firth, Broderick, Midler are ‘Found’
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler have joined Helen Hunt in “Then She Found Me,” the drama on which Hunt makes her feature directing debut.
Hunt has been working for eight years to adapt the Elinor Lipman novel. The Blue Rider fund and the bank ICB are financing. Shooting is just getting under way in Brooklyn.
Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler, Christina Vachon and Katie Roumel are producing with Connie Tavel. John Wells, Walter Josten and Blue Rider’s Jeff Geoffray are exec producing. Odyssey Entertainment is selling foreign rights.
Hunt plays a schoolteacher found by her birth mother (Midler) during a tumultuous time in her life. Broderick is playing Hunt’s husband, and Firth a man she meets through one of her students.
Alice Arlen wrote the first adaptation of Lipman’s novel. Vic Levin and Hunt rewrote it and then Hunt did the final polish. Hunt, who was last seen in “Empire Falls,” has a role in the Emilio Estevez-directed “Bobby.”
RTE Guide Entertaiment
12 September 2006
Firth and Midler joining Hunt’s film
Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick are joining the cast of ‘Then She Found Me’, the directorial debut of the film’s star, Helen Hunt.
Based on the Elinor Lipman novel, ‘Then She Found Me’ tells the story of a schoolteacher (Hunt) who is found by her birth mother (Midler). Broderick will play Hunt’s onscreen husband, with Firth playing a man the teacher meets through one of her students.
Variety reports that Oscar winner Hunt has spent eight years working on adapting Lipman’s novel for the big screen.
Shooting on the film has just begun in Brooklyn.
