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Mrs. Winterborne

2/4/2009, reviewed by Amanda Evans

Connie Doyle is a naive 18-year-old who runs away from her dad and on her first day in New York meets Steve DeCunzo, a smooth talking loser who invites her to live with him. When he learns she's expecting his baby, he turns her out on the streets. Down to her last quarter after months of trying to make ends meet on her own, she tries to go to a local shelter, but accidentally ends up on a train heading for Boston. Rescued from the ticket clerk by a happy-go-lucky Hugh Winterborne (Brendan Frazier), she gratefully accepts his hospitality and cozies up with his wife (also largely pregnant). Hugh is heading home after a long trip in Hong Kong to introduce his wife to his family for the first time - but they never make it.

The train crashes shortly after Connie tries on Patricia's wedding ring and next thing she knows she's in a hospital room with a new baby and she's being called Mrs. Winterborne! Soon the wealthy Winterbornes take her in. At first she only goes along with the mistake so that her baby will have a better life than she grew up with. But soon she falls in love with her cantankerous "mother-in-law," the Puerto Rican butler, and especially Hugh's twin brother Bill.

Just when her life seems to finally be perfect, Steve gets wind of her change in fortune and suddenly develops some "paternal interest." With a clever twist at the end, we've watched this more than once and can recommend it as a cute flick.

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