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Running Wilde (2010)

Running Wilde poster
Genre
sitcom
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 37 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy and self-centered heir tries to win back his childhood sweetheart, an environmentalist who just returned from the jungle. Her daughter secretly schemes to keep her mother from going back by enlisting the heir's help, resulting in crazy misunderstandings at his mansion.

lightheartedwhimsicalcomicalfast-pacedsillyfarceabsurdupbeat

What happens

Running Wilde is an American sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz, Jim Vallely and Will Arnett for Fox. It stars Arnett as Steve Wilde, a self-centered, idle bachelor and heir to an oil fortune. The series follows Wilde's awkward attempts to regain the affection of his childhood sweetheart, Emmy, an environmentalist who had been living in the South American jungle, but whose young daughter does not want to return there and who secretly enlists Steve's help to keep Emmy at his mansion, leading to farcical situations and misunderstandings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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