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Flirting with Forty (2008)

Flirting with Forty poster
Directed by
Mikael Salomon
Genre
romantic comedy, romance film, Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 63 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A divorced mother turns 40 and goes to Hawaii where she meets a younger surf instructor. They start a flirtation that gets complicated by distance.

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What happens

Flirting with Forty is a 2008 American romantic comedy-drama television film directed by Mikael Salomon from a screenplay by Julia Dahl, based on the novel with the same name by Jane Porter. Starring Heather Locklear and Robert Buckley, the film premiered on Lifetime on December 6, 2008. The film focuses on Jackie (Locklear), a divorced mother who travels to Hawaii for her 40th birthday and meets a young surf instructor named Kyle (Buckley). The two flirt and Kyle teaches Jackie how to surf. Complications develop because the two are living in different parts of the world. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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