Raising Helen

Raising Helen (2004) is Garry Marshall's romantic comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Helen lives for her job at a New York modeling agency, the parties and the designer dresses. Then her sister dies in a car crash.

The will leaves her sister's three kids to Helen rather than to the obvious stay-at-home aunt. Teenager Audrey rebels, ten-year-old Henry shuts down, little Sarah just misses her mom. Overnight the uptown party girl is wrestling with diapers, parent-teacher nights and a cheaper apartment across the river. Along the way she meets Dan, the easygoing principal of a Lutheran school, and the romance only adds to the chaos. Kate Hudson plays Helen, alongside John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hayden Panettiere and Helen Mirren.

Marshall, the director of Pretty Woman, makes a warm family comedy about a life you never chose becoming your own and why that is no disaster. It plays it safe but it has heart. Stream Raising Helen (2004) online on iFILM.