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Husband for Hire

Husband for Hire

Overview
Husband for Hire is a 2008 comedy
Comedy
Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece...

 television film that premiered on Oxygen Network on January 24, 2008. Husband for Hire was written and directed by Kris Isacsson, and it starred Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez is an American actress and model.Velazquez was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Puerto Rican descent. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, and has a BA in marketing. Her first acting role was a McDonald's commercial as a drive-thru lady...

, Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe is an American actress best known for her role as Bill Cosby's daughter and fourth child, Vanessa Huxtable, on the popular 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show.-Career:...

, Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos
Mark Andrew Consuelos is a television and film actor.-Biography:Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain to a Mexican father and Italian mother. His father was a politician in Spain. Consuelos has lived in Italy and the United States since childhood...

, Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...

 and Mario López
Mario López
Mario Lopez, Jr. is an American actor of Mexican descent who has appeared on several television series, in films and on Broadway. He is best-known for his portrayal of the character Albert Clifford A.C...

.


Lola (Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez is an American actress and model.Velazquez was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Puerto Rican descent. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, and has a BA in marketing. Her first acting role was a McDonald's commercial as a drive-thru lady...

) attempts to gain her father's trust fund by hiring a Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that historically denoted a relationship to the ancient Hispania . During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the contemporary nation of Spain....

 husband, Bo (Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos
Mark Andrew Consuelos is a television and film actor.-Biography:Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain to a Mexican father and Italian mother. His father was a politician in Spain. Consuelos has lived in Italy and the United States since childhood...

), offering him $
United States dollar
The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents .The U.S...

100,000 per year if he marries her. Bo accepts, and then departs from his Texas
Texas
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...

 home and returns with Lola to her home in New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S...

.
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Quotations

"I will die for the templar cause!" - Female Templar Paladin, Deus Ex: Invisible War.

I, Miko Miyazaki, Paladin of the Sapphire Guard, have come to vanquish you this morning. Rouse yourself from your half-asleep stupor and prepare yourself for battle. In the interest of a fair and proper fight, I demand you be fully awake before we attack. Don't forget to retrieve your weapons from their resting places. - Miko Miyazaki, The Order of the Stick".

You have not eaten your morning meal yet. It would be dishonorable to fight a foe who has not had the chance to load up on carbs. - Miko Miyazaki, The Order of the Stick. Category:Fictional characters

Encyclopedia
Husband for Hire is a 2008 comedy
Comedy
Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece...

 television film that premiered on Oxygen Network on January 24, 2008. Husband for Hire was written and directed by Kris Isacsson, and it starred Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez is an American actress and model.Velazquez was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Puerto Rican descent. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, and has a BA in marketing. Her first acting role was a McDonald's commercial as a drive-thru lady...

, Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe is an American actress best known for her role as Bill Cosby's daughter and fourth child, Vanessa Huxtable, on the popular 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show.-Career:...

, Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos
Mark Andrew Consuelos is a television and film actor.-Biography:Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain to a Mexican father and Italian mother. His father was a politician in Spain. Consuelos has lived in Italy and the United States since childhood...

, Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...

 and Mario López
Mario López
Mario Lopez, Jr. is an American actor of Mexican descent who has appeared on several television series, in films and on Broadway. He is best-known for his portrayal of the character Albert Clifford A.C...

.

Cast

Actor Role
Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez is an American actress and model.Velazquez was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Puerto Rican descent. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, and has a BA in marketing. Her first acting role was a McDonald's commercial as a drive-thru lady...

Lola
Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos
Mark Andrew Consuelos is a television and film actor.-Biography:Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain to a Mexican father and Italian mother. His father was a politician in Spain. Consuelos has lived in Italy and the United States since childhood...

Bo / Normando
Mario López
Mario López
Mario Lopez, Jr. is an American actor of Mexican descent who has appeared on several television series, in films and on Broadway. He is best-known for his portrayal of the character Albert Clifford A.C...

Marco
Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...

Victor
Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe is an American actress best known for her role as Bill Cosby's daughter and fourth child, Vanessa Huxtable, on the popular 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show.-Career:...

Nina
Jayce Bartok
Jayce Bartok
Jayce Bartok is an American actor. A young leading man with TV and film experience, Bartok had his best chance to date as Pony, the rock star who returns to his home town where his pals are waiting in Richard Linklater's subUrbia...

Bread
Rosa Arredondo Simona
Erin Ross Nikki
Tish Rayburn-Miller Dotty

Synopsis


Lola (Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez
Nadine Velazquez is an American actress and model.Velazquez was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Puerto Rican descent. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, and has a BA in marketing. Her first acting role was a McDonald's commercial as a drive-thru lady...

) attempts to gain her father's trust fund by hiring a Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that historically denoted a relationship to the ancient Hispania . During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the contemporary nation of Spain....

 husband, Bo (Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos
Mark Andrew Consuelos is a television and film actor.-Biography:Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain to a Mexican father and Italian mother. His father was a politician in Spain. Consuelos has lived in Italy and the United States since childhood...

), offering him $
United States dollar
The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents .The U.S...

100,000 per year if he marries her. Bo accepts, and then departs from his Texas
Texas
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...

 home and returns with Lola to her home in New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S...

. Lola finds out he is in fact Caucasian
Caucasian race
The term Caucasian race has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia...

. Lola's best friend, Nina (Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe
Tempestt Bledsoe is an American actress best known for her role as Bill Cosby's daughter and fourth child, Vanessa Huxtable, on the popular 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show.-Career:...

), and Bo's brother (Jayce Bartok
Jayce Bartok
Jayce Bartok is an American actor. A young leading man with TV and film experience, Bartok had his best chance to date as Pony, the rock star who returns to his home town where his pals are waiting in Richard Linklater's subUrbia...

) join the trip, as does Bo's girlfriend, Nikki (Erin Ross), and her clumsy friend, Dotty (Tish Rayburn-Miller), in secret.

When introduced to Bo, Lola's father, Victor (Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...

), refuses to allow them to get married, until Bo convinces him by playing an antique guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...

. In the mean time, Lola's ex-fiancé, Marco (Mario López
Mario López
Mario Lopez, Jr. is an American actor of Mexican descent who has appeared on several television series, in films and on Broadway. He is best-known for his portrayal of the character Albert Clifford A.C...

), and his secret girlfriend, Simona (Rosa Arredondo), who is also Lola's sister trying to keep her from having the inheritance, plot against Lola in order to gain the trust fund for themselves. Throughout the course of the story, Lola and Bo actually fall for each other. However, after Simona discovers Bo and Lola have a plot of their own, she uses Nikki to ruin the plot. However, before Nikki could do any damage, Victor and Bo get into an argument, which has both Lola and her father kick Bo out. In response, Lola's ex-fiancé is able to win back Lola's heart, but Lola only agrees for the money.

Later that night, Nikki and Bo discover Simona and Marco's plot and are consequently held prisoner, so they may not warn anyone. However, Nikki's clumsy friend Dotty finds Nikki and Bo, frees them, and Bo is able to warn Lola. Still angry about the previous night, Lola kicks Bo out once more and proceeds to marry for the money. Fortunately for her, she trusts Bo's words and turns the tables on Simona and Marco, and also turns down the money from her father and departs, claiming that money ruined the family long before that day.

At the end of the film, Bo is working as a bartender
Bartender
A bartender serves beverages behind a bar in a bar, pub, tavern or similar establishment...

, where Lola manages to find him. They reconcile and show their love for each other once again, and they remain together and happy.