Where the hell is Helen Hunt?- Page 2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 4:20am

I love her in the tv movie "The Miracle of Kathy Miller" (circa 1983) and also in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." I think she peaked after that.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 7:35am

Doesn't she also have a 3-year-old? She's probably concentrating on motherhood right now.

Why is it that when female actors have children, the default answer for why they're not working is that they must be concentrating on motherhood?

I never hear anyone say that male actors aren't working because they must be concentrating on fatherhood.

[Mamie]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 7:40am

Right now John Lennon is the only male (in any profession) I can think of who stopped what he was doing to concentrate on home and his young son.

[Silbee]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 8:52am

I loved her in Mad About You. That was one of the best cast sitcoms, ever.

I recently watched the one with Mel Brooks as Uncle Phil in hospital, brilliant.

I wish they would have released the entire cache to DVD.

I find her subsequent movie appearances mediocre at best.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:06am

I've liked nothing she's done, since Rollercoaster.

[nmartin]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:35am

JohnBoy2, once you've done a movie in Sensurround, everything else is bologna.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:41am

So true! Or true dat, if you prefer.

[nmartin]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:44am

If only she had had a featured role with Ava Gardner in Earthquake...

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 10:02am

Nothing can beat the chemistry of the Mad About You cast. Even in the early episodes it was like they'd all been working together for years.

Amazing that it's been off the air for almost 10 years.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 10:29am

Gee, I hated Mad About You. The only person more smug than Helen Hunt on that show was Paul Reiser! Eeeewwwww!!!
I also hated the unlikeable and obnoxious cast of Murphy Brown, another show at which they were always throwing awards.
Updated On: 3/30/08 at 10:29 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:05am

Well, speaking of obnoxious and unlikable casts to whom awards were constantly thrown, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND takes that cake!

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:15am

EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND worst sitcom ever!

But back to Helen, i was only thinking about her today when i saw the dvd cover for Bobby and had a overwhelming need to see Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:19am

No Helen Hunt thread would be complete without...

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:31am

She was absolutely fantastic (and Oscar-worthy) in As Good as It Gets. I also loved her smart and sexy work in What Women Want.

[nygrl23]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:42am

She also did a guest spot on Bionic Woman.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 1:42pm

Yea, her new movie looks AWESOME! What a change of pace!
Groundbreaking! Career defining! I can see the reviews now!
Helen Hunt, Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler MAY (note I say MAY) be fine individually, but put them all together and that is one huge bag o' tricks.




Trailer

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 1:56pm

It looks entertaining, but you're right - more of the same from the entire cast.

Luckily, I find Hunt, Midler, and Firth extraordinarily watch-able, so I know I will enjoy the film...but.....

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 4:49pm

It looks entertaining enough. I'm a sucker for Broderick and Firth so I'll watch.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 5:10pm

I used to like Broderick, but he seems to have fallen into a trap he can't get out of. He's so uptight in everything, everything he says is so one-note, I just can't get into him anymore.

[Jon]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 6:14pm

I remember one critic describer her performance in Twelfth Night as resembling a bird trying to peck it's way out of a box with its beak.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 6:47pm

Here is a perfect example of two actors (Hunt and Broderick) who were BETTER when they were younger and just starting out. They came from show biz families and of course that gave them a little leg up, but they were so unguarded and brave back then. Now they are just kind of sad and lazy.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 6:49pm

She was in Dallas recently for opening night of the AFI film festival. "Then She Found Me" screened as the festival's opening-night film.
AFI opening night article in Dallas Morning News

[roquat]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:27pm

Yeah, I don't often agree with John Simon, but his assessment of her in "Twelfth Night" ("Helen Hunt is as bad as it gets") was dead-on. She didn't seem to realize it was a Shakespearean COMEDY. She was doing all this noble head-tilting and jaw-thrusting as if she thought she were playing Julius Caesar. And being surrounded by inspired farceurs like Kyra Sedgwick and Paul Rudd just made her look worse.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/30/08 at 9:42pm

That movie looks like a SNOOZE FEST.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 10:04am

She was doing all this noble head-tilting and jaw-thrusting as if she thought she were playing Julius Caesar.

Where was the director? That doesn't really sound like all the blame could be put on her. It's sort of the reason directors exist.

I loved Helen Hunt in Mad About You and As Good as It Gets. I thought she totally deserved her Oscar and her Emmys.