The Substitute Wife

Set in 1869 Nebraska, THE SUBSTITUTE WIFE is about a Wild West couple who strike upon an unconventional solution to their misfortune.

When she is stricken with a fatal illness, frontierswoman Amy Hightower (Lea Thompson) fears that her husband Martin (Peter Weller) will not be able to manage the farm and their four young children alone. She sets out to find him a new wife, but single women are so scarce that the only candidate she can find is a tough talking and not so young prostitute named Pearl (Farrah Fawcett). Eager for a change of scenery, Pearl accepts Amy's unusual proposition. She quickly learns that being a wife and mother entails more work than she ha...