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Albertosaurus
Since: Jan, 2001
5th Feb, 2019 11:53:52 AM
Found it, it’s The House Sitter.
I remember watching a film around the year 2000 that I swear was called something like "The Housekeeper", but while I do find films with similar titles, I'm not finding this one.
The film involves a woman taking care of a house (I want to say it was like a mansion) that belongs to some older guy. She convinces the people in the neighborhood (they might be his family?) that she's engaged to him. They're suspcious of her because she's beautiful, so she makes up a story about her face getting burned and covered in bandages. In her story, he took care of her and proposed to her before the bandages came off. So she didn't seduce him with her beauty, he really loves her. There's also a scene involving them making out in the fireplace.