Evan Marriott Movies

Based on a novel by Melissa Senate, this made-for-cable romantic comedy stars Charisma Carpenter as Jane Grant, a New York bachelorette with a moderately successful job at a publishing company. At the behest of her Aunt Ina (Linda Dano), Jane must find a suitable date to escort her to her cousin's wedding in four weeks. Our heroine experiences a number of romantic misadventures with a steady parade of "Mr. Wrongs" (one of whom is played by Joe Millionaire's Evan Marriott) before hitting upon a man who might be "the One" -- and then again, might not. Making Jane's task all the more difficult is the presence of her former high school nemesis Natasha Nutley (Holly Marie Combs), now a soap opera diva whose autobiography Jane has been assigned to edit. See Jane Date debuted August 16, 2003, on the ABC Family Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

It would be easy to describe Joe Millionaire as the most tastelessly voyeuristic reality series of the 21st century, except that it came too early in the century for such an assessment to be final. On this one, 20 lovely young ladies were whisked off to a lavish French château, there to be wooed and possibly won by the mansion's owner, a 28-year-old multimillionaire. Only the series' producers knew that the man in question, one Evan Marriott, was not worth the 50 million dollars he claimed to be, but was merely a 19,000-dollar-a-year construction worker. As each woman vied for Marriott's attentions -- and as several were eliminated from the running week after week -- the question posed by the series was: Will the 'winner' continue to profess her undying love and devotion to the studly Marriott once she finds out that he isn't a millionaire? (Funny, when the series finally aired, the women who lost insisted that they weren't golddiggers.) From the people responsible for Temptation Island, the seven-episode Joe Millionaire opened to low expectations and high ratings on January 6, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide