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Starring: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth (View All)
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Starring: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth
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. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
4/25/08
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language and some sexual content.
Running Time
100 mins.
Locations
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$3,735,303
Awards
- Winner of the Best Leap from Actress to Director award at the 2008 Journalists, Alliance of Women Film [F Awards.
Distributor
- Odyssey Entertainment
- ThinkFilm










