Second-Hand Hearts

Second-Hand Hearts (1981)

A Recession Romance

A boozy drifter tries to get to know the widow he married while on a bender.

Date of release
1981-05-08
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Hal Ashby

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Production and release

The filming was plagued by trouble throughout production, much stemming from the erratic behavior of Ashby and writer Eastman. Although it was filmed in 1979, it was not released until 1981, and Paramount Pictures, at the time serving as Lorimar's theatrical distributor, chose to only open the film in New York and Los Angeles.

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