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3 October 1997 (USA)
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A comedy for the incurably unromantic. more
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Marcy is an assistant to Senator John McGlory, who is having problems with a re-election campaign. Desperate for Irish votes...
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A real peach
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Janeane Garofalo | ... | Marcy Tizard |
 | David O'Hara | ... | Sean Kelly |
 | Milo O'Shea | ... | Dermot O'Brien |
 | Jay O. Sanders | ... | Senator John McGlory |
| Rosaleen Linehan | ... | Millie O'Dowd |
| Paul Hickey | ... | Declan Kelly |
| Maria Doyle Kennedy | ... | Sarah Kelly |
 | Saffron Burrows | ... | Moira Kennedy Kelly |
 | Denis Leary | ... | Nick |
| Olivia Caffrey | ... | Annie |
| Joan Sheehy | ... | Bus Passenger |
| Anne Gildea | ... | Airport Assistant |
| Claude Clancy | ... | Michael the Bus Driver |
| James Ryland | ... | Sergeant Riley |
| David King | ... | Local Lad No. 1 |
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Rated R for language.
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97 min
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Ballinagra, the name of the town in the movie is a reworking on the Irish 'Baile Na Gra' which means 'Town of Love'.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In a scene where the senator (still in the US) is in a limousine, there are Ivory Coast flags flying from the car (orange, white and green, rather than the green, white and orange of the expected Irish flags). As this is exactly the kind of mistake a clueless wannabe-Irish politician might make, it might have been deliberate on the part of the film-makers.
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Quotes:
Moira Kelly:
It's like gum in your hair. It comes out eventually.
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Referenced in Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary (2003) (TV)
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Danny Boy
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If this movie isn't the best thing Janeane Garofalo has ever done it must be close. The acerbic wit she was known for on "The Larry Sanders Show" is there, but so is everything else. She's a three-dimensional character.
It's refreshing to see a love story without a sex scene, or even a gratuitous nude or near nude scene. Most filmmakers nowadays would throw something like that in just to tease audiences with it in the trailer. But "Matchmaker" is an honest movie, and Garofalo's Marcy is tough yet vulnerable and loveable.
Some would say that "Matchmaker" exploits the Irish by way of stereotyping them. I had the opposite impression. It seemed that the people who made this movie loved the Irish.
Usually I find myself agreeing with the aggregate score of each movie in the IMDb. But in this case I'm out of the mainstream. The aggregate score is 6.2, which normally indicates a barely watchable movie. But I gave Matchmaker a 10.