Plot Synopsis
Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) is a 33-year-old, divorced mother who moves to a rural Arizona town to make a living by training and boarding horses. She becomes friends with the town's druggist (pharmacist), Murphy Jones (James Garner), but a romance between them seems unlikely due to Murphy's age and because Emma allows her ex-husband, Bobby Jack Moriarty (Brian Kerwin), to move back in with her and their 12-year-old son, Jake (Corey Haim).
Emma struggles to make ends meet, but is helped by Murphy, who (while refusing to help her outright with a financial loan) buys a horse and boards it with her and encourages others to do the same, and provides much-needed emotional support for both her and Jake. A rivalry begins to develop between Murphy and her ex-husband, until one day another woman shows up with Bobby Jack's twin baby boys. As her ex leaves town, Emma asks Murphy for advice on what to do with her life. It is then that Murphy reveals to her two things of importance: his true feelings and his age. Murphy admits that he is in love for the last time in his life, while Emma says that she is in love for the first time.
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