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Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell, my guest, Oscar Award winning,, Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning actress Helen Hunt, has been directed by filmmakers from Robert Zemeckis to Robert Altman, Albaob's. Her second film as director is Ride. She also stars in a film and co-produce as well. Helen, first of all, it's good to have you back.

I'm so happy to be here. And tell us a little bit what Wright is about because that title sort of makes

a thing like it might be kind of pleasant sort of driving across the country kind of a movie.

Yes, it's not a driving across the country movie, but it is sort of. It's about a New Yorker, a born-and-bred, diehard New Yorker, sort of type A editor of New Yorker magazine,

who is, one might say, a little too close to her 19-year-old son. They're both writers. They

both need each other, maybe too much for reasons that unfold during the movie. And he's going

to NYU. He leaves for his summer break to spend the summer with his dad right in

this neighborhood here in Santa Monica. And he writes her and says, I'm dropping everything and I'm

going to be in California and be happy and do less and surf. And she finds this the most horrifying

missive she might receive and gets on a plane and follows him until she literally

crashes into him. And he says, you don't understand me. Don't talk to me so you can stand up

on a surfboard. So a good portion of the movie is watching the least likely candidate on

earth tried the most humbling sport God ever thought of. Well, we see her in the beginning of the movie where she's swimming and keeping her neck literally above the water.

I don't have to do your hair twice any day, Elvis. Priorities.

But that's funny, because I wanted to say, in directing terms, just the sort of the move from your first film to this,

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