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Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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January 7, 2003 "Please retry" | DVD | 1 |
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| $10.10 | $5.99 |
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Genre | Romance, Performing Arts |
Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | Garofalo, Leary, O'Shea, S, O'Hara |
Language | English |
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Product Description
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As she does in The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Janeane Garofalo proves she's a capable leading lady--beautiful, charming, self-effacing, and what used to be referred to as sharp as a tack. Garofalo plays Marcy, aide to dim Massachusetts senator McGlory (Jay O. Sanders). Denis Leary is appropriately slimy as a fellow aide. The senator and Nick dispatch Marcy to the remote (and fictitious) Irish town of Ballinagra, where she's supposed to unearth relatives to use in the senator's PR campaign. Along the way, Marcy not only encounters the eccentric locals, but finds herself in the maelstrom of the town's annual matchmaking festival. The single Marcy inadvertently catches the eye of the movie's eponymous matchmaker Dermot (a captivating Milo O'Shea). Dermot senses sparks between Marcy and the equally cynical, recently returned local boy, Sean (David O'Hara), once a successful journalist who's returned home to work on a book. The intimacies of the small town, the relationships between the locals, and the dialogue are credible and engaging. Look for beautiful cinematography and music, too. Also notable is the movie's ability to convey the feel of a foreign film while injecting humor that's both sarcastically American and yet Irish in trademark. --N.F. Mendoza
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 4 ounces
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Release date : March 10, 1998
- Actors : Garofalo, O'Shea, O'Hara, Leary, S
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Polygram Video
- ASIN : 6304798520
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #71,939 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #782 in Performing Arts (Movies & TV)
- #2,928 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #8,390 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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After years of getting weak fixes from YouTube trailers, I just had to go to Walmart to buy an LG DVD burner/player for $26. I plugged the player into my cheap laptop's URL port. It took me forever to figure out which of the dozens of the player's downloaded driver files actually played the movie. Finally I found it: "VIDEO TS." But it worked. The film was jittery because of the cheap computer, but I watched the whole movie at once. It's still one of the most fun, charming films out there. I plan to share this DVD with everyone I know who has a player.
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
After years of getting weak fixes from YouTube trailers, I just had to go to Walmart to buy an LG DVD burner/player for $26. I plugged the player into my cheap laptop's URL port. It took me forever to figure out which of the dozens of the player's downloaded driver files actually played the movie. Finally I found it: "VIDEO TS." But it worked. The film was jittery because of the cheap computer, but I watched the whole movie at once. It's still one of the most fun, charming films out there. I plan to share this DVD with everyone I know who has a player.
The songs, the shenanigans, the sass.... it's a perfect Feel Good happily ever after story.. and the world desperately needs more of that!
I felt real affection for most of the characters in this movie and I thought it made some good, if gentle, observations about American politics and how our priorities get a bit mixed up.
Love this film.