Robert LuPone

Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher whose long-lost birth mother reappears, the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis.

Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher whose long-lost birth mother reappears, the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis.

A romantic comedy about the strain of contemporary relationships, one woman's urgent desire for parenthood, and a solution to it all.

Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt) whose long-lost birth mother (Bette Midler) reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis. Abandoned by her husband (Matthew Broderick) and still grieving the death of her adoptive mother, the emotionally fragile teacher enters into a relationship with the father of one of her students just as her biological mother, an eccentric talk-show host, appears on her doorstep attempting a reconciliation.