Directed by:
Helen HuntCinematography:
Peter DonahueComposer:
David MansfieldCast:
Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman, Lynn Cohen, John Benjamin Hickey, Salman Rushdie, Daisy Tahan, Tommy Nelson (more)Plots(1)
Desperate to start a family, schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) is thrown into confusion when she is unexpectedly abandoned by her husband (Broderick). She gets another shock when she meets her unusual birth mother (Midler), a self-centered talk show host who's not exactly the ideal mom. At first she rejects her, along with the attentions of a divorced dad (Firth), but then she begins to find her life opening up in ways she had never imagined. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Helen Hunt
USA
Best movies:
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Cast Away (2000)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Bette Midler
USA
Best movies:
The Rose (1979)
Gypsy (1993) (TV movie)
What Women Want (2000)
Colin Firth
UK
Best movies:
The King's Speech (2010)
Love Actually (2003)
Conspiracy (2001) (TV movie)
Matthew Broderick
USA
Best movies:
The Lion King (1994)
Glory (1989)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Ben Shenkman
USA
Best movies:
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Night Of (2016) (series)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Lynn Cohen
USA
Best movies:
The Station Agent (2003)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Munich (2005)
John Benjamin Hickey
USA
Best movies:
Freedom Writers (2007)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Truth (2015)
Salman Rushdie
India
Best movies:
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2002) (TV movie)
Dirty Pictures (2000) (TV movie)
Daisy Tahan
Best movies:
The Nice Guys (2016)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (2009)
Tommy Nelson
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (2011) (series)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
Robert LuPone
USA
Best movies:
The Doors (1991)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
High Stakes (1989)
Chris Chalk
Best movies:
When They See Us (2019) (series)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Rent (2005)
Geneva Carr
USA
Best movies:
Love and Other Drugs (2010)
One Last Thing... (2005)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009)
Maggie Siff
USA
Best movies:
Michael Clayton (2007)
The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
The Sweet Life (2016)
Janeane Garofalo
USA
Best movies:
Ratatouille (2007)
Duane Hopwood (2005)
Come As You Are (2019)
Tim Robbins
USA
Best movies:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Mystic River (2003)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Edie Falco
USA
Best movies:
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Trust (1990)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Hristo Hristov
Bulgaria
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Disconnect (2012)
The Visitor (2007)
Cherise Boothe
Best movies:
Inside Man (2006)
42 (2013)
The Wool Cap (2004) (TV movie)
Marina Durell
Best movies:
Lean on Me (1989)
A French Vampire in America (1992)
Badge 373 (1973)