The Matchmaker
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Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1997-10-03
Runtime: 97 mins
Director: Mark Joffe
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Original title: The Matchmaker
Production Companies: Good Film Company, Working Title Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Gramercy Pictures
Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Cast
Janeane Garofalo
David O'Hara
Milo O’Shea
Jay O. Sanders
Rosaleen Linehan
Paul Hickey
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Saffron Burrows
Denis Leary
Olivia Caffrey
Joan Sheehy
Anne Gildea
Claude Clancy
James Ryland
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