Richard Levine directs Every Daywith Live Schreiber, Helen Hunt and Carla Gugino, which is currently shooting in New York. Eddie Izzard and Brian Dennehy (a favorite of mine) recently joined the film.
Schreiber and Hunt play an unstable married couple in turmoil. Schrieber’s character is tempted by seductress, Gugino. It’s not clear, yet, who Izzard plays, but Dennehy plays Hunt’s sick and embittered father who moves into their home.
It appears the film is a drama-comedy. I hope it works out that way.
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Every Day begins filming in New York this month starring Live Schreiber and Helen Hunt.
Every Day is a drama written and to be directed by Richard Levine, his feature directing debut.
According to Variety, Schreiber and Hunt play a couple whose marriage is strained to the breaking point. Angst!
Helen Hunt will stay in front of the camera this time compared to her directorial debut with Then She Found Me. She’s in for a nice break wearing only on hat.
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Helen Hunt’s directorial debut of Then She Found Me is a spectacular concatenation pivoting around Hunt’s character Alice.
An adoptive daughter of a Jewish faith who is visited by her biological mother, played brilliantly by Bette Midler, at the end of her short-failed marriage and the death of her adoptive mother.
Yet at the same time, Alice meets Colin Firth’s character, Frank, who loves her deeply and the feeling is mutual.
Then she finds out she is pregnant.
Although it appears this film is a slice of life — it’s more than that – the story dissolves the seamless writing into rough cuts of true to life scenes.
Bette Midler stands out. Her character has many layers of half-truths, untruths and incomplete truths. You can’t help but understand her complexity. She takes each scene and rests on the undercurrents between her and Hunt.
This movie is a great beginning for Hunt. It’s billed as a comedy but the humor (or wit) comes from Midler.
Hunt took on a huge task with an ensemble of very talented actors and a story as thick as angst. It’s worth a look if you ask me – Then She Found Me hit the DVD shelves September 1st.
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 The New Yorker’s David Denby says this about Helen Hunt’s first directorial movie, “Then She Found Me.”
“What makes this small movie work is the filmmakers’ curiosity about the many-sidedness of need-the way genuine benevolence, say, can be cloaked in blunt intrusiveness, or the way insults can be a reckless demand for love. We get the feeling that these people are far from completed as personalities, and that the movie’s end, when it comes, is more like a pause. With any luck, Helen Hunt will continue to put complicated people on the screen. “
I would love to see this movie because I like Helen Hunt, and the story has an interesting twist of complexities.Â
For the complete review click here: New Yorker
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