“Bluegrass Hollywood” is back in action, and this time on the Lifetime network. Yes, that is my unofficial nickname for Kentucky now that the lucrative Kentucky Entertainment Incentive (KEI) tax break has been drawing more Hollywood filmmakers to the Commonwealth.
Kentucky’s Film Industry
Over the past four years, we’ve seen actors like Orlando Bloom, Andie MacDowell, Ethan Hawke, Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Dustin Hoffman, and Pennywise himself, Bill Skarsgard, do work in the Bluegrass State on various projects. There have also been some Christmas movies filmed in Kentucky, in Owensboro, Henderson, and Somerset.
Lifetime Movie Filmed in Kentucky
Now, appropriately enough, we have a horse movie, and it’s airing on Lifetime. In Where the Heart Lands or Win, Place, Love (depending on the source you find), a Los Angeles realtor inherits a dozen racehorses and flies to Kentucky to check out the stable where they’re housed. Soon, a romance develops between the agent and the trainer whose horses he now owns. Tyler Johnson plays the California dude, but it’s three of his co-stars with whom you might be more familiar. (You’re probably very familiar with two of them.) The trainer, Charlie, is played by country hitmaker Jana Kramer.
In the trailer for Where the Heart Lands, you’ll probably recognize two TV legends from the 70s and 80s. Charlene Tilton (Dallas) and John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) co-star as Susie and Chuck…