The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped

TV Movie
1974
1h 14m

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As a joke, a small-town beauty queen is hired as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.As a joke, a small-town beauty queen is hired as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.As a joke, a small-town beauty queen is hired as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.

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In this movie there is a disdainful reference to Ingrid Bergman as "that woman". This is a joke lost on the present generation, but in 1974 it would have made much more sense. This is a reference to the scandal when Bergman left her husband and daughter to live with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and give birth to a child out of wedlock.

Goofs
The film's conclusion is set in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but mountains are clearly seen in the distant background.

Quotes
Michael Green: I have this phobia about getting to be 40. I don't know. When you're in your twenties, everybody says "boy genius!" And then when you're in your thirties, "Ah, yes! Young man on the way up!" You get to be forty... zip. Nothin'. No more adjectives. Just a man.

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9/10

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When you have it all, you should be happy. However, some people are not when they have it all: a good home, wealth, and happiness. For this guy, he's everything but that. He's a commitment phobe who's near 40. So when he gets a girl who's gift wrapped for his birthday. He's anything but happy. But when time passes on with her at his side, he slowly changed. He has a dog, plants, and he finally rids himself of the maid.

Five years after "The Big Valley", Richard Long has a different character from the show he was on. And Karen Valentine has a heart of gold in this movie. It would be later when "Pretty Woman" would come out to theaters. I liked it very much.

2 out of 5 stars.