MOVIE REVIEWS
Mail Order Bride:
Hallmark Channel Movie starring Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place), Greg Evigan (My Two Dads), and Cameron Bancroft (Little House on the Prairie Mini-Series).
CAST:
Daphne Zuniga ... Diana McQueen
Greg Evigan .... Tom Rourke
Cameron Bancroft ... Beau Canfield
Vincent Gale ... Ghost
Patrick Currie ... Father Kelly
Tom Heaton ... Willy
PLOT:
from Hallmark-
Diana McQueen (Daphne Zuniga) has been working, against her will, for Boston conman Tom Rourke (Greg Evigan) since she was 12 years old, running scams, stealing and lying.
Diana's friend Jen, ill with tuberculosis, has been corresponding with Beau Canfield (Cameron Bancroft), a Wyoming Rancher she's never met, but plans to marry. When Jen dies, Diana seizes the opportunity to start her life over by stealing Rourke's money. Pretending to be Jen, she moves out west to marry Beau.
As Beau battles against the local Cattleman's Association, Diana falls back on her old ways, and jumps at the chance to get enough cash to run away again. Just when Beau figures out who Diana really is, Rourke discovers where she is hiding, and the ensuing showdown turns the whole town upside-down and changes the future for all of them.
Welcome to... The Wild West!
Unlike most Hallmark Movies, this is Not a Family Film.
It is filled with cursing, gambling, gun-fighting, and sexual innuedos.
Nearly a century later, picture brides have been replaced by mail order brides. But the two practices diverge in a substantial way. Whereas Korean and Japanese picture brides generally married men of the same national background, the mail order bride system involves men seeking wives, and women seeking husbands, from ethnic groups other than their own.
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