Director: | Anne Wheeler |
Producer: | Randy Cheveldave |
Starring: | Daphne Zuniga Cameron Bancroft |
Music: | Michael Richard Plowman |
Cinematography: | David Pelletier |
Editor: | Jana Fritsch |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Runtime: | 120 minutes |
Company: | Larry Levinson Productions |
Network: | Hallmark Channel |
Mail Order Bride is a 2008 American Western television film on the Hallmark Channel. It premiered on November 8, 2008, and stars Daphne Zuniga.[1]
Con-woman Diana McQueen[2] decides to skip out of town and leave her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. To avoid the conflict that would result by her quick disappearance, she switches places with a dying friend, who had planned on becoming a man's mail-order bride. Seeing that this is her only chance to escape, she takes on the role and lies to the unsuspecting frontiersman.
Mail Order Bride ranked as the network's most-watched November non-holiday original movie ever. The movie scored a 2.2 household rating, delivered nearly 1.9 million homes, 2.5 million total viewers and 3.9 million unduplicated viewers. It also ranked as the second-highest-rated cable movie of the day and fourth-highest-rated movie of the week. This performance boosted Hallmark Channel to rank #2 in Prime Time for the day, and #10 for the week.