Helen Hunt To Star & Direct In 'Then She Found Me'


Helen Hunt is to star and make her feature directorial debut on a drama that she adapted from an Elinor Lipman novel called Then She Found Me, according to Variety.

Talks are in process for Diane Keaton and Woody Harrelson to join her.

"It is a story about betrayal and the surprising, funny and redemptive things that are borne out of that," said Hunt, who has been working on the script on and off for seven years.

While screenwriting and feature directing are new to her, Hunt said that years of helping develop stories and directing episodes of the sitcom "Mad About You" served as "a kind of boot camp, the best possible way to go to film school."

In Then She Found Me, Hunt will play a Philadelphia schoolteacher hitting a midlife crisis. In quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talkshow host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father (Harrelson) of one of her students.

"Even though it uses the lens of betrayal as a theme, the ambition is for it to be a comedy even though the subjects are deep and fierce," Hunt said.

Movie will shoot later this year.

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