rAi$inG HeLEn

Raising Helen is a 2004 American comedy drama film directed by Garry Marshall from the director of "Runaway Bride" and "Princess Diaries". This film written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler.
It stars :

a) Kate Hudson - Helen Harris

b) Joan Cusack - Jenny Portman

c) Hayden Panettiere - Audrey Davis

d) John Corbett - Pastor Dan Parker

e) Helen Mirren - Dominique

f) Abigail Breslin - Sarah Davis

g) Spencer Breslin - Henry Davis

h) Felicity Huffman - Lindsay

Helen Harris (Kate Hudson) is living the life she always dreamed of. Her career at a top Manhattan modelling agency, working for Dominique (Helen Mirren), is on the rise, she spends her days at fashion shows and her nights at the city's hottest clubs.

But her carefree lifestyle comes to a screeching halt when one phone call changes everything. When she learns that her oldest sister Lindsay (Felicity Huffman) and her husband Paul have died in a car accident. After the funeral, to the surprise of all, Helen becomes the guardian of Lindsay and Paul’s three children: outrageous 15-year-old Audrey (Hayden Panettiere), witty 10-year-old Henry (Spencer Breslin), and cute 5-year-old Sarah (Abigail Breslin). Helen elects to take the children from stuffy uptight Connecticut to a ramshackle apartment in fast-paced Queens much to the dislike of older sister, Jenny (Joan Cusack). Helen soon finds herself responsible for her sisiter's childrens.

Helen meet the fun principal of the kids new school.She receives help from Pastor Dan (John Corbett), the principal of a Lutheran school in which she enrolls her three new additions. Pastor Dan guides her down the right road, at her side when the pet turtle croaks and when Audrey falls for the school rebel.

Romance soon begins to bloom along the way, crafting a delightful humorous chemistry between Helen and Dan. She realizes the choice she has to make between the life she's always loved and with the new loves of her life.