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- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A high-spirited wife and her meekish husband hit the road to take back her kids from her previous marriage who live with her ex-inlaws.
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Written By: Charles Eastman
- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Second-Hand Hearts
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Generally Unfavorable
28
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Summary A high-spirited wife and her meekish husband hit the road to take back her kids from her previous marriage who live with her ex-inlaws.
Directed By: Hal Ashby
Written By: Charles Eastman
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
28
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
75% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
28
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
75% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Second Hand Hearts is a very classy-looking movie. Haskell Wexler is the cinematographer, and he transforms the gauchest milieus into elegant tableaux. But Harris and Blake don't mesh with Ashby's innately cool style. [18 May 1981]
He's a washout at the car wash, she's a waitress with a dream. Together they motor off to Tinseltown in search of fame, glory and, maybe, Bert Convy. It's a country-western love story that'll tug at those heartstrings, folks, and, no, I'm not making any of this up. [21 June 1985, p.6C]
Second Hand Hearts needs far more than a change of title to save it from oblivion. It needs a screenplay that doesn't treat its characters as if they were waste baskets to be filled with prose that any self-respecting writer would hide from his best friend.
This Ashby-directed film suffers most from its too-simple plot, but the often-indecipherable Texas accents that Blake and Harris lay on don't help matters much.
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