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Unless you are Jewish, a 39 year old spinster, can not have kids, definately female, and/or have no friends in your life but your brother, then you cannot identify or even admire the main character Hunt plays.
Every real important big actor all try to director/produce some kind of important usually independent film in their lifetime. Kevin Spacey didn't find much support to make his film Beyond the Sea, but did everything to get it made. Ed Norton and Naomi Watts worked like dogs to get Painted Veil made only to fail in the box office. It's now Helent Hunt's turn. I will give her one prop unlike the other big names. She got her friends on board like Matthew Broderick, Bette Milder, and Colin Firth on board and still manage to budget of about $3.5 mil.
In Hunt's film directoral debut, she works with the plot of a old kindergarten teacher whose is about as deperate as anything to have a kid. There is a lot of Jewish references in the film. Now I know everyone in Hollywood executive gets these, but the other 98.5 % of the people probably don't get much from Hunt praying in Hebrew. Matthew Broderick who can bring a ton of character to the screen (but not here) plays her shy pathetic husband who leaves her for no reason really, then pops in and out. Colin Firth as usual plays a grumpy guy who never smiles like in every single movie he ever starred in. Finally there is Better Milder who is her celebrity mom who lies for no reason, and oddly wants to find her lost daughter after 38 years.
You really have to be Helen Hunt fan to like this film, or want to adpot a kid. For everyone else in the world, there are plenty of other films.
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