Playing a party girl-turned-parent in "Raising Helen," she'll find more of an audience -- especially among females -- than with disappointments like "Alex & Emma." While its characters occupy an unconvincing emotional middle ground, "Helen" -- which the Walt Disney Co. sneaked on Mother's Day -- appears destined to climb well above the boxoffice midrange after it opens this month. The script by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler puts a mild new-millennium update on the motherhood-meets-yuppiedom premise of "Baby Boom."

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