The Hired Heart

The Hired Heart

Garnet Hadley needed a boyfriend... So she hired one!

PG 1997 · 90 min · ★ 5.3 · Drama, Romance, TV Movie

A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father-in-law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull in return for her attendance at the fair with a suitable escort. She decides to call his bluff by hiring a male escort to attend the fair as her lover. However, things don't go quite according to plan as he smells a rat!

Directed by Jeremy Kagan · Written by Jeff Elison

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