The latest Lifetime Original fairy tale may at first sound similar to How Stella Got Her Groove Back, based on the novel of the same name, about how Stella got her groove back with a young stud while on vacation somewhere tropical. No: this Original Movie, Flirting with Forty, based on the book of the same name, is about how Heather Locklear's character Jackie got her groove back with a young stud while on vacation in Hawaii.
* Heather meets a 27-year-old surf instructor in Hawaii who is handsome, sensitive, charming, supportive, loves kids, speaks French, is psychic, has ripped washboard abs, has hair unbleached by the sun, and never utters a syllable of bro-bra surfer speak.
* Heather's character's daughter --who is like seven years old-- worries aloud that Heather Locklear's character is settling for someone not good enough for her.
* Heather's ex is played by Cameron Bancroft, aka Joe "Joe Loves Donna" Bradley of Beverly Hills 90210 fame.
* Heather Locklear probably would have aged well, but she opted to fight nature with lip implants, breast implants, and other work, making her look weird in all the promotional stills. Wait, that part isn't laughable.
* The fact that I missed the first half-hour of Sunday's premiere of this movie and then watched the part I'd missed when it reran on Monday evening.
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