Garnet Hadley needed a boyfriend... So she hired one!
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!
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Brett Cullen, Barry Corbin, Allison Hossack, Barbara Gates Wilson, Graham Greene, Paul Jarrett, Daryl Shuttleworth
Garnet Hadley needed a boyfriend... So she hired one!
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!
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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…
1h 30m
October 13, 1997
Jeremy Kagan
Penelope Ann Miller, Brett Cullen, Barry Corbin
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
PG
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