:Flirting with Forty

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| image = flirtingwithforty.jpg

| caption = Promotional poster

| based_on = {{based on|Flirting with Forty|Jane Porter}}

| screenplay = Julia Dahl

| director = Mikael Salomon

| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| composer = Jeff Beal

| country = United States

| language = English

| producer = Lynn Raynor

| editor = Scott Vickrey

| cinematography = Jon Joffin

| runtime = 87 minutes

| company = {{Plainlist|

Peace Out Productions
Von Zerneck-Sertner Films
Nomadic Pictures
Sony Pictures Television

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| network = Lifetime

| released = {{Start date|2008|12|06}}

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Flirting with Forty is a 2008 American romantic comedy-drama television film directed by Mikael Salomon from a screenplay by Julia Dahl, based on the novel with the same name by Jane Porter. Starring Heather Locklear and Robert Buckley, the film premiered on Lifetime on December 6, 2008.

The film focuses on Jackie (Locklear), a divorced mother who travels to Hawaii for her 40th birthday and meets a young surf instructor named Kyle (Buckley). The two flirt and Kyle teaches Jackie how to surf. Complications develop because the two are living in different parts of the world.{{cite web|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|title=You Can Teach an Old Cougar New Tricks, Junior|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/television/05flir.html|work=The New York Times|date=December 4, 2008|accessdate=December 28, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flirting_with_forty/|title=Flirting with Forty (2008)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=December 28, 2013}}

Premise

Jackie Laurens is a recently divorced, 40-year-old and mother of a young son and daughter who takes a vacation alone to Hawaii where, against her better judgment, she meets and hooks up with hunky, 27-year-old resident surf instructor Kyle Hamilton. However, what began as a one-night stand turns into love, with Jackie flying to Hawaii every chance she has to meet with her latest love interest, which is soon met with disapproval from her ex-husband, her children, and even her close friends. As time and the pressure from everyone around her to end things with Kyle pushes Jackie to her breaking point, it will only take her beau Kyle to teach her how to cope before life passes her by.