The MatchMaker (1997)
A comedy for the incurably unromantic.
97 min
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.
- Release date
- April 23, 1998
- Country of origin
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
- Budget
- $7,000,000
- Box office
- $6,000,000
Cast
- Janeane Garofalo as Marcy Tizard
- David O'Hara as Sean Kelly
- Milo O'Shea as Dermot O'Brien
- Jay O. Sanders as Senator John McGlory
- Rosaleen Linehan as Millie O'Dowd
- Paul Hickey as Declan Kelly
- Maria Doyle Kennedy as Sarah Kelly
- Saffron Burrows as Moira Kennedy Kelly
- Denis Leary as Nick
- Olivia Caffrey as Annie
Crew
- Mark Joffe · Director
- Greg Dinner · Writer
- Karen Janszen · Writer
- Louis Nowra · Writer
- Graham Linehan · Writer
- Tim Bevan · Producer
- Eric Fellner · Producer
- Luc Roeg · Producer
- John Altman · Composer
- Ellery Ryan · Cinematographer
- Paul Martin Smith · Editor
- Mark Geraghty · Production designer