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Then She Found Me (Blu-ray/2007/Image Entertainment)

 

Picture: B+     Sound: B+     Extras: C     Film: B-

 

 

I don’t know what it is exactly, but for some reason I am not a fan of Helen Hunt, never have been and doesn’t look like that’ll change anytime soon.  Because of this fact I was a bit reluctant to check out 2007’s Then She Found Me as she stars along with Matthew Broderick, Colin Firth, and Bette Midler.  Not only does she star in the film, she also directed it!  Oh my.

 

Being her first feature film it’s actually not nearly as bad as the bomb I had it pinned for, although that might not be saying too much either.  Hunt plays schoolteacher April Ephner who after separating from her husband (Broderick) and the death of her adoptive mother, she comes in contact with her biological mother (Midler), who is a local talk show host.  April also comes in close proximity of one of her student’s (Firth) parents as well and the rest of the films devotion is the journey that April takes to answer some of her deep-rooted questions about life and love.

 

Arriving on Blu-ray in a 25GB edition, the film is presented in a 1080p transfer framed at 1.85 X 1 and looks pleasing, if not awesome at times and demonstrates Peter Donahue’s (The Fog of War) camerawork well.  The image is detailed, has depth, looks sharp, and shows the best that Blu-ray has to offer for a film of its nature.  There are moments of softness and sharpness is not as solid in medium shots. The audio mix is a solid DTS-HD 5.1 mix that showcases some terrific dialogue and David Mansfield’s (Heaven’s Gate) musical score.  Hunt certainly got these two things right by employing the right people to get the job done and this Blu-ray offers a great demonstration of those elements, despite some minor problems here and there.

 

Extras include a commentary track by Hunt that is nothing really that special and can easily be skipped, about 12-minutes in deleted scenes, cast interviews, and the theatrical trailer.  While this might not be the best film of its kind, it was a surprisingly better film than expected and should have had more exposure than it did, maybe this Blu-ray can correct that fact.

 

 

-   Nate Goss


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