Helen Hunt is back in the limelight, and she's mad about writing and directing.
According to Variety, Hunt will make her feature directorial debut based on the Elinor Lipman novel Then She Found Me, which she adapted into a screenplay herself. She is best known for her role on the hit sitcom "Mad About You", and she won the coveted Best Actress Oscar in 1997 for As Good As It Gets. Since then, she has made a brief appearance in Cast Away opposite Hanks and his volleyball, and starred in 2001's Curse Of The Jade Scorpion. Now she is back with a vengence.
The film Then She Found Me, which Hunt will write, direct, and star in, has taken seven years of adapting to perfect. "It is a story about betrayal and the surprising, funny and redemptive things that are borne out of that. 'Mad About You' served as kind of boot camp, the best possible way to go to film school." she explains.
Hunt will play a Philadelphia schoolteacher in the midst of a midlife crisis. Her husband walks out on her, death hits the family, a talkshow host makes an even bigger mess of her life, and she gets a tingle for the father one of her pupils. Diane Keaton and Woody Harrelson are rumored to be joining the project. The film will shoot later this year, and hits theaters in 2006.
