ROMANTIC COMEDY
Like Debra Messing's The Starter Wife, this two-part frothfest is based on a novel by Hollywood insider Gigi Levangie Grazer. Sarah Chalke is Clarissa, a socialite who schemes to marry rich and guarantee her stupidly expensive lifestyle. She pursues a film producer (Philip Winchester), unaware he's playing her too. Chalke has some good scenes at the end, when a humanized Clarissa—in truth a voracious romantic—learns that life is not a spa treatment. The rest is cardboard.
