The Christmas Wife

Year: 1988

Runtime: 73 mins

Language: English

Director: David Hugh Jones

RomanceTV MovieDrama

After his wife dies, an elderly widower dreads a lonely Christmas and answers a newspaper ad promising companionship. He meets a social‑arranger who pairs him with a woman willing to spend the holiday together, on the condition he never probes her private life. Her hidden secret soon threatens their budding friendship and could alter both of their futures.

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