Helen Hunt worked in different types of movies.
Cast Away is a 2000 American epic survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks , Helen Hunt , and Nick Searcy . Helen Hunt . Some of her other notable films include Twister ( 1996 ) , Cast Away ( 2000 ) , What Women Want ( 2000 ) , Pay It Forward ( 2000 ) , and The Sessions ( 2012 ) , the latter garnered her a second Academy Award nomination . Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama-romance film based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Hyde . The Sessions ( originally titled The Surrogate ) is a 2012 American independent drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin . Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as storm chasers researching tornadoes . What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith , Cathy Yuspa , and Diane Drake , directed by Nancy Meyers , and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt .