Customer Reviews

Borrowed Hearts

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The original movie was excellent, but the "Feature Films for Families" version leaves out critical information and scenes that make the outcome of the movie more meaningful. This DVD should be marketed honestly as an edited (censored) copy of the movie. I would've preferred the original.

JH

I was disappointed in this product as it had been edited from the TV version I had originally seen. I didn't realize the DVD was being offered by a 'family values' group. Although the original version was barely PG, the editied version is now definitively G. Several lines of dialogue between the 2 main adult characters were removed and an early scene which defined what kind of man the main character was has also been removed. It's still a good movie and if you haven't seen the original, you probably won't care. Personally, I dropped off the DVD at the Salvation Army and just kept my video-taped off the TV version - commercials and all. For me, the interaction between the 2 main adult characters was what had made the movie worth $25 (with shipping), so losing that was a big disappointment for me. For me, it was a waste of money. If you have kids, though, it would probably be a good buy.

Borrowed Hearts. The original version is a wonderful story, but they edited this version making it lose it's continuity and understanding, and have basically ruined it. We tried to return it to the seller, but they were rude and argumentative and now Amazon has started an investigation into this problem and hopefully we'll get our money back. If not, we will have wasted our money and will never order from this particular company again! They should be required to put, "Edited For Children", with their ad so adults would know not to buy the item.

I love Christmas movies and romance movies and this Christmas movie/romance story is very good and is sweet without being syrupy sweet and I think Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel) and Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) were both very good and so was Hector Elizondo (Chicago Hope), and the little girl who played Roma Downey's daughter. This movie is about a wealthy man played by Eric McCormack who owns a huge company and he wants to impress an important potential client who he thinks is old fashioned and very family orientated and would not like the fact that he plays the field with many different women and has not settled down so when his business partner lies to the client and says that he is married and has a kid he is forced to go along with it and pays a woman who works in his factory to pretend that they are married and that her daughter is his daughter and she having a deadbeat ex-husband and having to support her daughter needs the money. This is a sweet Christmas movie and I highly recommend it. They really should put this movie on DVD!

Borrowed Hearts has been shown on The Family Channel for the past 3 years and I wanted to own the movie myself, so I purchased it from Amazon. After I watched the movie, I realised that the movie was missimg at least 5 different scenes. This is NOT what I expected Amazon to be selling. For the price I paid, I expected the ENTIRE movie, not part of the movie. I am very disapointed with my purchase and with Amazon.

PJ

Chesterfield, VA

What can I say. Everyone that I know has been trying to purchase this on DVD or VHS. I bought both. Normally the VHS tape is better - the reason is, it has a full screen - too many heads get chopped off in DVDs. Roma Downey is always good in shows, the little girl "Chloe" is a very good actress, as is our favorite, as always, Hector (can't spell his last name, you know the actor - Runaway Bride, Pretty Woman, etc.).

I have waited several years for this movie!!! Thanks for finally releasing it for the home box office.

This is definitly a feel good movie that is good to watch with the whole family. Roma Downey out does herself! It is a movie where you can laugh and cry. So get the family together and watch Borrowed Hearts because it will definitly win your heart!

This is a great movie. I loved it when I saw it on TV a couple of years ago. It is set at Christmas time and it sends several great messages about people and what's in their hearts and what's really important in life.

The story line involves a local businessman who "borrows" a wife and child to secure a big business deal with an out-of-town businessman. Throughout the deception, you learn the human side about the people involved.

Hector Elizondo is excellent as the out-of-town businessman. He is so smooth and classy. You may remember him as the hotel manager in "Pretty Woman"--the guy who helped her "find a dress". The little girl is adorable and an excellent actress. She makes you want to grab her and hug her throughout the movie, especially in the heart-wrenching scene when her real father is about to hit the road again. The local business man is great. And Roma Downey, I always loved in her "Touched By an Angel" role. I often find myself using the term "a wee bit" which I copped from her, (but it's OK because I have a little Irish in me, along with the other multi-nation parts).

This is a great family-values movie for the whole family. It's all about love and caring for people and feeling sensitivity towards others. Get it! If you are a kind, sensitive, loving person, you will love the movie.

Sam Field, owner of Field Industry, is about to close a big business deal (a merger). Kathleen works in his factory and having been recently divorced, she is trying to earn money for a down payment on a house. She wants to move her daughter to a better neighborhood. By an odd set of circumstances, Kathleen and her daughter, Zoey, end up in Mr. Field's home just as he is looking for a woman and child to play his family. Seems his business associate has played up to the man with whom they will be signing the merger, Mr. Del Campo. He is big on family and likes to do business with family men, so his associate has told him that Sam has a family. As scenes at the beginning of the movie indicate, Sam is anything but a family man, but now he needs to acquire a family ASAP.

Of course, Kathleen and Zoey get the job as his family and proceed to turn his world upside down--all the while little Zoey is longing for her real Dad who left town six months ago without saying good-bye.

My purpose here is just to clarify what has been edited in the Feature Films for Families version and what is still in this version. I'm not passing judgment on what is appropriate for you and your family--I'm just noting the differences.

In this version, and not in the Feature Films version, in the opening scenes Sam is having a formal dinner with a girlfriend. They start out at opposite ends of the long table and end up together at one corner. Though they are "just eating" it is done in a very "steamy" manner--if you can imagine. The next thing you see is the following morning when Sam is obviously not fully dressed beneath his robe and the woman from the dinner scene is fully dressed and storming out of the house--implying that she had spent the night. In his factory that day he tells his associate about the situation and that the angry departure was because he learned she was a mother and he doesn't date women with children. His associate replies that if he didn't do the crime he doesn't do the time (implying that if he is not the father he needn't be punished by being saddled with the child) and jokes with him about how he goes through so many women. While Kathleen is working that morning she makes a comment to a coworker that includes a reference to testosterone. The first "hired wife" (who doesn't get the job) tells Sam that if he wants to sleep with her it will cost him an extra $100. In a conversation between Sam and Kathleen he asks if she doesn't think of him when she is in his bed (in their pseudo-marriage she sleeps in his bed and he sleeps on a cot in the dressing room/closet). He then says, "Tell me you're not tossing and turning and wondering." She admits that she is. There are also a couple of incidents each of swearing and profanity. That summarizes what I could detect, having watched both versions recently. In the edited version I only noticed one time where it was obvious that something had been cut.

I like the movie. Corny?--at times, but overall an enjoyable, fluffy holiday romance that tries to squeeze in a message about the importance of family.

I watch this movie every christmas and I simply love it! The acting is not the best but the values are wonderful and it is very romantic. If you are looking for a charming christmas tale to warm your heart during the 'season to be jolly' then "Borrowed Hearts" is the perfect movie for you!