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The Matchmaker

Oct 03, 1997 | IMDB 6.2

97 min Watch Now

Comedy, Romance

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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Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Milo O’Shea, Jay O. Sanders, Rosaleen Linehan, Paul Hickey, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Saffron Burrows, Denis Leary, Olivia Caffrey

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