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Second-Hand Hearts (1981)

Second-Hand Hearts poster
Directed by
Hal Ashby
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
PG
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely man and a woman with a young daughter meet and form an unusual family. They navigate life together in a small town.

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What happens

Second-Hand Hearts is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay by Charles Eastman. A shorter version of this screenplay, under its original intended title The Hamster of Happiness, was written by Eastman for the unconventional NBC anthology series NBC Experiment in Television, which was broadcast in 1968 with Mildred Dunnock and Susan Tyrrell in the cast. It was the second of three films Ashby directed which were produced by Lorimar Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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