The Hired Heart

The Hired Heart

90 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 13, 1997

A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her father in law to marry her off to the local eligible bachelors, she still remains so. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father in law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull and 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 and investigates the new boyfriend and even worse the escort starts to fall in love with her!

The Hired Heart

90 mins | Drama, Romance | Oct. 13, 1997

The Hired Heart
A small-town, country doctor has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her father in law to marry her off to the local eligible bachelors, she still remains so. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father in law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull and 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 and investigates the new boyfriend and even worse the escort starts to fall in love with her!
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers
Original title The Hired Heart
Directors Jeremy Kagan
Writers

Cast

Brett Cullen

as Bryan

Barry Corbin

as Mike Hadley

Allison Hossack

as Jenny

Graham Greene

as Keith

Paul Jarrett

as Ed Pullman

Penelope Ann Miller

as Garnet Hadley