A Little Bit of Sunlight

If you know me, then you know that I love English accents.

If you really know me, then you know that I think Colin Firth is just gorgeous.

So I added Then She Found Me to my Netflix account.

About the movie: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick star in this comedic tale about a schoolteacher in the thick of a midlife crisis involving a messy divorce, the death of her adoptive mother and a reunion with her eccentric birth mother. As if that weren’t enough to juggle, things grow even more complicated when she begins dating a man who turns out to be the father of one of her students.

I had heard nothing about this movie prior to adding it to my queue, so did not know what to expect. I only now learned that Hunt was the director of the movie. While at times the movie seemed to lose its purpose, it was a warm and funny movie about a middle-aged woman trying to have a child of her own.

Things to know - basically this movie is rated R because of its use of the F word. If they had cut that word out it would have been PG-13. I think its used about half a dozen times - and I believe several of those times it was actually used according to its meaning. The MPAA rating says its rated R because of language and sexual content - but there is no nudity and what sexual content there was, was nothing compared to some PG-13 movies I’ve seen (Titanic being one) or what’s on primetime tv.

My main complaint about the morality of the movie is that Hunt’s character starts dating Firth’s character before she is divorced…although her husband left her, it still leads to some moral questions when watching the movie.

I did get a little tired of Midler’s character, but it was interesting to see her character grow and mature as she was trying to get to know her biological daughter.

The end of the movie made me cry, but I can’t tell you what the end is without spoiling the story. Let’s just say that the title has many, many meanings to it.