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Biography: Helen Hunt

A precociously talented youngster, Helen Hunt was drawing paychecks as a television actress from the age of ten. Before she was 17, she had appeared as a regular on two series, Swiss Family Robinson (1975) and The Fitzpatricks (1977). Hunt proved she was more than just a workaday child actor with her starring performance in the fact-based 1981 TV movie The Miracle of Kathy Miller, in which she played a high school athlete who overcame severe mental and physical damage brought on by a highway accident. While she had been appearing in films as early as Rollercoaster in 1977, Hunt was never groomed as a star player, and it is possible that her resemblance to another child actress, Jodie Foster, held her back from more important roles. After taking on her first adult role in the 1982 sitcom It Takes Two, Hunt's film assignments improved, with sizable roles in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Project X (1987), Next of Kin (1989), and The Waterdance (1991). She also gained a small measure of cult status by appearing in a brace of science fiction films, including Trancers II (1991) and Trancers III (1992). That same year, Hunt landed her longest-lasting acting assignment to date, as the co-star of the Paul Reiser-created comedy series Mad About You. During the show's seven-year run, she won both Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her portrayal of Jamie Buchman. In 1996, Hunt had her most successful film role to date in the blockbuster Twister. The following year, she topped that when she received a Best Actress Oscar for playing a caring waitress and single mother who befriends acerbic, obsessive-compulsive author Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson, who also won an Oscar for his performance) in As Good As It Gets. After Mad About You ended in 1999, Hunt appeared in films by several veteran directors, including Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away [2000]), Robert Altman (Dr. T and The Women [2000]), and Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion [2001]). She starred in Life x 3 on Broadway in 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Then She Found Me (2007)
Cast: Bette Midler Matthew Broderick
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 100min
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...
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A Good Woman (2004)
Cast: Tom Wilkinson
Tags: Period Film Comedy Comedy of Manners Sophisticated Comedy
Length: 93min
One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largesse of several married men, and when she...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Cast: Woody Allen
Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy Detective Film
Length: 102min
Writer and director Woody Allen returns to the Manhattan of the past with this romantic comedy set in 1940, the era of fedora hats and gumshoe detectives. Allen stars as C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator whose razor-sharp instincts have just led...
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Cast Away (2000)
Cast: Robert Zemeckis Tom Hanks
Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 143min
An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a Federal Express engineer who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting...
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Pay It Forward (2000)
Cast: Haley Joel Osment Kevin Spacey
Tags: Inspirational Drama Childhood Drama Message Movie Drama
Length: 122min
A young boy stumbles upon a simple way to change the world in this drama. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) is a bright 11-year-old boy who comes from a troubled home; his mother Arlene (Helen Hunt) is an alcoholic trying to hold down two jobs to support her...
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What Women Want (2000)
Cast: Mel Gibson
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 126min
A man finds himself getting an unexpected crash course in the psychology of contemporary women in this romantic comedy. Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful advertising executive living in Chicago who has long fancied himself a ladies' man,...
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As Good As It Gets (1997)
Cast: Jack Nicholson James L. Brooks
Tags: Slice of Life Romance Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 139min
James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News) directed this 50 million-plus romantic comedy, set in Manhattan. Dysfunctional, acid-tongued romance novelist Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
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Dr. T & The Women (2000)
Cast: Robert Altman Laura Dern
Tags: Comedy Drama Romance Ensemble Film Comedy of Manners
Length: 121min
Director Robert Altman reteams with Cookie's Fortune scribe Anne Rapp for this tale of a Dallas gynecologist and the parade of anxious patients, haggard family members, and potential love interests who come his way. Richard Gere plays the titular role...
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Kiss of Death (1995)
Cast: Nicolas Cage
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Thriller Gangster Film Thriller
Length: 101min
A convict agrees to go undercover and gather evidence on a notorious crime lord in order to win an early release from prison in this tough, gritty crime drama. Much of the tension develops from the inner conflict of Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso), who...
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Twister (1996)
Cast: Helen Hunt Steven Spielberg
Tags: Disaster Film Action Drama
Length: 114min
Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions are the cyclones themselves. Best experienced in a theater, the nail-biting, blow-the-audience-out-of-their-seats computer generated...
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