Following the success of The Truth About Cats And Dogs, Janeane Garofalo is again an unlikely romantic lead, this time playing a workaholic aide to a soft-hearted but essentially good senator who's up for re-election. To secure the Irish vote, Garofalo is sent to Ireland to find the senator's ancestors; there, much to her surprise, she arrives during the small town's Matchmaking Festival. Crusty veteran matchmaker Milo O'Shea wagers a rival matchmaker that he can hook up the feisty American politico with a rugged, hard-working Irish journalist working as a bartender in the midst of a separation. He falls hard for the sassy American, but complications ensue, some involving evil political aide Denis Leary's attempts to set up the senator with a local Irish girl. Like most other romantic comedies, Matchmaker is intensely formulaic, combining romantic-comedy clichés with American-abroad clichés without transcending or subverting either of them. The scenery is beautiful, of course, but all the supporting characters seem to be lifted from a touring company of Finian's Rainbow. Garofalo is appealing, but her pleasantly sour comic persona is defeated by the film's disgustingly saccharine greeting-card soul.