The Matchmaker

This is a sweet, bittersweet comedy, well-executed if perhaps a little heavy on anecdotage.

The Matchmaker is serviceable as a breezy genre effort, lovingly seeped in the kind of earnestness and period-piece detail found in something like Stand By Me.

Despite the uneven and potentially-dissatisfying screenplay, there are still a few reasons to see The Matchmaker, chief of which is a trio of finely-tuned performances...

...spunky political operative Marcy Tizard (Garofalo) is packed off to Ireland to research the ancestors ofmher boss, Massachusetts Sen. John McGlory (Jay O'Sanders)...