The Matchmaker (1997)
A comedy for the incurably unromantic.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Runtime : 1H 37M
Director : Mark Joffe
Writer : Karen Janszen, Greg Dinner, Louis Nowra, Graham Linehan
Synopsis
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.
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