The Bachelor

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When Mrs. Chandler is rushed to the hospital due to what appears to be a heart attack (but turns out to be a bad case of heartburn), her three handsome, unmarried sons flock to her side, anxiously asking what they can do to make her feel better. Their mother opens her eyes and utters one word: “Grandbabies!”

Wanting to grant their ailing (or so they believe) mother her one wish before she departs for the sweet hereafter, the Chandler brothers start looking for wives.

Roman, the youngest of the brothers, takes a leave of absence from his job as a foreign correspondent to spend time with his mother while she recuperates. Having lost a coin toss with his brothers, he must be the first to become a married man with baby to abide by his mother’s wish. He is sure he’ll never find a woman sophisticated enough to satisfy him as his partner-in-life in the sleepy upstate New York town where his mother lives. Then he’s reacquainted with the woman who got away, the one woman he’s drawn back to, even as he’s planning his escape—Charlotte Bronson, the town’s newest entrepreneur.

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