The Matchmaker . Tucson Weekly . 10-13-97

The Matchmaker

DIRECTED BY: Mark Joffe

REVIEWED: 10-13-97

You can bet your lucky four-leaf clover this travesty won't stick around the theaters for more than a couple of weeks, so if your idea of a great movie is a thin plot about a slimy U.S. senator who sends his surly campaign flunky (Janeane Garofalo) to drum up endearing relatives in his supposed ancestral town in rural Ireland--populated, of course, by every pathetic Irish stereotype to wash up on the dreary shores of Hollywood comedy writing--don't delay another minute: Face your destiny and meet The Matchmaker. Supposedly, this is a romantic comedy about a lonely American political junkie and a jaded, small-town Irish journalist; but it's terminally unfunny and there isn't a single spark between Garofalo and leading lout David O'Hara. On the plus side, the scene starring a shitbucket, a narcoleptic, and a demented, cursing patriarch makes the rest of the ordeal almost worthwhile.

--Wadsworth

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