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The Matchmaker(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-10-03
62%
47 Votes
Time: 1h 37m
A comedy for the incurably unromantic.
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom,
United States of America
Budget: $7,000,000.00
Revenue: $6,000,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Good Film Company
Movie: The Matchmaker
Top 10 Billed Cast
Janeane Garofalo
Marcy Tizard
David O'Hara
Sean Kelly
Milo O’Shea
Dermot O'Brien
Jay O. Sanders
Senator John McGlory
Paul Hickey
Declan Kelly
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Sarah Kelly
Saffron Burrows
Moira Kennedy Kelly
Denis Leary
Nick
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