'Then She Found Me' screens May 12th
POSTED ON April 29, 2008
Actress Helen Hunt's directorial debut is the featured film for May's "Second Monday Cinema Series" on May 12.
Adapted from Elinor Lipman’s novel of the same name, THEN SHE FOUND ME, a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mother (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life’s questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.
The screening starts at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 12, at the Jane Pickens Theater, 49 Touro St., Newport. Tickets are $10, or $8 for Film Newport members, and can be purchased at the door starting at 5:30 pm on the 12th.
Attending the screening to answer questions will be Elinor Lipman, who wrote the novel upon which the screenplay is based.
(NOTE: There will be no Second Monday screening in June.)
About the Series
The Second Monday Cinema Series began in 2007, with the purpose of of screening a new film — before its national release — on the second Monday of each month.
The series, which is NIFF's first foray into year-round programming, kicked off in November, 2007, with the drama "Starting Out in the Evening," starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose and Lili Taylor.
Films that have screened in the Second Monday Cinema Series:
- My Brother is An Only Child, dir. Daniele Luchetti; April 2008
- Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna), dir. Patricia Riggen; March 2008
- Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts; February 2008
- The Air That I Breathe, dir. Jieho Lee; January 2008
- My Kid Could Paint That, dir. Amir Bar-Lev; December 2007
- Starting Out in the Evening, dir. Andrew Wagner; November 2007