Sometimes I'm on IMDB, idly scrolling through actors I spot in whatever I'm watching (who's that girl? where have I seen her before?) or checking up on what likable actors/actresses are up to. And I come across sweet little gems that I bet these folks wish they could wipe from their resumes. Movies like The Decoy Bride and Chalet Girl. These sound pretty much like an ABC Family or Oxygen made-for-TV movie that stars Mario Lopez or Dean Cain. But they are actual films! That were in actual movie theaters! And, bonus, they star actors I know and like from other things! The 10th Doctor (David Tennant)! Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl)!
According to Wikipedia, the plot of The Decoy Bride is about the 10th Doctor being engaged to Kirk's love interest from the second Star Trek movie, who is apparently one of the most famous film stars around. Who is apparently too famous to attend her own wedding (I bet Kim Kardashian wishes the same could be said about her!). So they hire a local girl to pretend to be her (how does that even work? does she get plastic surgery to be more convincing? wouldn't everyone notice they don't look the same?). I bet all my money and my future children that the 10th Doctor falls in love with the decoy! Shenanigans! Because nothing says good husband material like a man leaving his fiance for her stand-in!
And Chalet Girl is about a former snowboarding champion in mourning who agrees to be a chalet girl (what?) working in the Alps for rich clients. Which puts her in the path of posh rich boy Ed Westwick (typecasting!). He has a girlfriend already, the woes! Can they find true love together anyway? Will she regain the heart to snowboard again, which she gave up after her mother died? I'M ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT YOU GUYS.
I have yet to see these gloriously ridiculous masterpieces, but my local library has both of them. I will never understand the thinking that goes into acquisitions at this library, because they don't have Revenge or The New Girl or 90% of the other TV shows I want, but they have copies of The Decoy Bride and Chalet Girl. Maybe they purchase from garage sales? Whatever the case, I'm glad they have these films on hand.
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