How the West Was Fun
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| Directed by | Stuart Margolin |
| Produced by | Mark Bacino Adria Later |
| Written by | Jurgen Wolff |
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Mary-Kate Olsen Ashley Olsen Martin Mull Patrick Cassidy Peg Phillips |
| Music by | Richard Bellis |
| Cinematography | Richard Leiterman |
| Edited by | David Blangsted |
| Distributed by |
- USA - American Broadcasting Company Warner Bros. - Germany - ProSieben Television |
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96 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
How the West Was Fun is a 1994 TV movie starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Twin girls Jessica and Suzy Martin (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) live with their father, Stephen (Patrick Cassidy), in Philadelphia. They have a dream about a man saying, "This town ain't big enough for the three of us" and having a shootout but argue who makes their move first. One day, they receive a letter from their late mother Sarah's godmother, Natty (Phillips), inviting them to a dude ranch. She, not knowing about Sarah's death, wants her to come help at the ranch. She is having financial problems because the ranch has too few paying visitors and, although she has offers, she does not want to sell it. The girls try to ask their dad's uptight boss, "The Dragon Lady" (Ms. Plaskett), for his vacation time, only to get him fired. They lie and say that she said that they could go. They go to the ranch and attempt to help Natty.
As they arrive they meet George Tailfeathers (Cardinal), Natty's friendly but mysterious Native American ranch foreman, and they become fast friends. But Natty's not-too-bright son, Bart Gafooley (Mull), immediately condescends to and patronizes the girls. Sarah's horse, Lightning, leads them to her secret hideout. They find half of a stone owl and bear, plus her diary which tells how Bart had once tried to set fire to the ranch, and about his secret hideout in a place called "The Bear's Mouth". As they finish reading, they see smoke and start running towards it, thinking it's another fire, but find it's Bart burning papers. They lie to him that an ember landed on the roof so they can find out what they are. They find out that he has been turning people away from the ranch. Trying to take a letter to Natty to show what he's doing, they are chased by him. He tears up the letter and snarls, "This ranch ain't big enough for the three of us", which brings the girls to a conclusion that he was the one in the dream.
Right before Bart can do any more, George backs them up with a riding lesson. At lunch, despite Bart's orders not to, they convince Natty to fix up the ranch and open it again. Later, Bart finds out that Stephen was fired and is about to tell him the truth, but instead decides to give the girls a chance to tell it themselves. Despite Natty's offers, he turns down her job offerings. Later, the girls find a hidden trap door under a stuffed bear (The Bear's Mouth), go inside, and find out that Bart is selling the ranch to make it into Gafooley Land Theme Park. Before Natty is about to sign the deed to the ranch to him, the girls convince her what he is up to. Heartbroken, she orders him off her land, or else he'd "get a good spanking".
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