Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? (2000) (TV)

User Rating:

1.5/10   

Director:

Don Weiner

Writer:

Jonathan Bourne (writer)

Release Date:

15 February 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Reality-TV | Romance

Plot:

Considered by many to be the low point of the "reality TV" phenomenon, this show had a flock of women...

Plot Keywords:

Multi Millionaire | Golddigger | TV Special | Millionaire

Cast

Anna Agatka	...	Herself
Kate Barnett	...	Herself
Alycia Benn	...	Herself
Michelle Bien	...	Herself
Kendra Bolduc	...	Herself
Kelly Bonk	...	Herself
Teresa Bowman	...	Herself
Kira Burt	...	Herself
Stacie Campbell	...	Herself
Felicita Carino	...	Herself
Kristen Clark	...	Herself
Darva Conger	...	Herself
Leanza Cornett	...	Herself (Co-Host)
Andrea Csorba	...	Herself
Sheryl Dahl	...	Herself
Tonya Davis	...	Herself
Tara Elwell	...	Herself
Lisa Fink	...	Herself
Carrie Francis	...	Herself
Julie Gardner	...	Herself
Wendy Gibson	...	Herself
Peggy Gray	...	Herself
Laurel Heske	...	Herself
Martina Holiday	...	Herself
Amanda Kostman	...	Herself
Amy Krokos	...	Herself
Lori-Ann LaPadura	...	Herself
Cindy LaVoie	...	Herself (as Cindy LaJoie)
Jessica Leiner	...	Herself
Barbara Lopez	...	Herself
Lora Manka	...	Herself
Elana Mansfield	...	Herself
Michelle McLin	...	Herself
Anna Meredith	...	Herself
Kelli Ann Meyer	...	Herself
Tia Mindeli	...	Herself
Stacie Mohowitsch	...	Herself
Tammie Monaco	...	Herself
Gina Morale	...	Herself
Irene Musyj	...	Herself
Michelle Myers	...	Herself
Susan Prince	...	Herself
Lisa Rhyne	...	Herself
Rick Rockwell	...	Himself
Annie Sawyer	...	Herself
Jennifer Seelig	...	Herself
Daneen Seifert	...	Herself
D.J. Shirley	...	Herself
P.J. Stover	...	Herself
Tricia Swenson	...	Herself
Jay Thomas	...	Himself - Host
Mark Thompson	...	Himself - Announcer (voice)
Julie Tibbits	...	Herself
Nathalie Vogt	...	Herself
Shanti Williams	...	Herself
Elizabeth Wittelsbach	...	Herself
Elizabeth Woods	...	Herself
Melissa Young	...	Herself
Peggy Zumbrunnen	...	Herself

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Chris Rock: Never Scared (2004) (TV)

The show that started the reality craze

This show started two crazes: The reality show craze and the marriage show craze. I remember seeing this. It was so silly. All day I thought of who was the mystery millionaire, and then find out it is this guy nobody knows named Rick Rockwell lol (I vaguely remembered him from the Killer Tomatoes movies). It was an interesting premise though: take a rich guy, line him up with 50 beautiful women, and marry him off to the one he likes. Sounded like a done deal, right? Wrong.

First you had a nobody like Rockwell who turns out to be the millionaire, then you have his personal life dredged up by investigative news shows and smokinggun.com, and then you have the competitors. Half of them there lied and just wanted a free trip to Vegas, and the other half seriously wanted to get married. Even its winner, Darva Conger, said she just entered to have a free trip to Vegas. Other competitors would get their 15 minutes of fame by giving exclusive interviews to their local television news outlets (In Washington DC, one competitor told how she was thankful she wasn't chosen because her BOYFRIEND wouldn't have liked that).

The show would be followed by many marriage reality shows, and even Fox went back to the Pandora's Box with Joe Millionaire. About two years later, an E! True Hollywood Story would be made detailing what went on behind the scenes (Host Jay Thomas said he advised Rick to "stay away from the blonde").

Unlike some of the marriage shows, this did more harm than good to the people involved. Rick took the annulment hard because he truly thought he would find a bride on the show. He eventually got over it and now works on the comedy club and motivational speaker circuit. Darva Conger was labeled by many as a vixen. She would also get her 15 minutes, but it would cost her a job and a life. She tried making a pay website of her own, but it was unsuccessful. She remarried this year, but has stayed out of the spotlight. In the end, everyone just moved on and was forgotten (thank God).