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Me & My Matchmaker
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Product Details
- Starring: Irene Nathan
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Mark Wexler
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- EAN: 0720229909082
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- Label: First Run Features
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- Manufacturer: First Run Features
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: First Run Features
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- Release Date: 2000-01-11
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- Studio: First Run Features
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1996-08-02
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- Title: Me & My Matchmaker
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- UPC: 720229909082
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Product Description: Tzeitel, Hodel, and Chava may have popularized the idea of matchmaking with their well-known song in Fiddler on the Roof, but in Jewish tradition the familiar yente figure has been around for centuries. And according to Mark Wexler's film Me and My Matchmaker, she's still got her job cut out for her. Irene Nathan is an Orthodox Jewish woman who runs a service for single Jews. For $400 a year, she'll fix clients up with people she thinks are properly suited for them. With more than 200 marriages to her credit (and only four of them ending in divorce), she's got a good track record. Yet what starts out as a straightforward documentary about a matchmaker turns into a self-exploration of the filmmaker as Irene wrests control of this film. "You'll have to convert," Irene tells the half-Jewish Wexler, as she won't let a Jewish woman marry a gentile. But she's determined to marry off the 39-year-old bachelor. Turning questions back on him, she asks him what he's looking for in a woman. When he replies, "A goddess," she smiles and says they're short on goddesses this season. Astutely, she asks him if he's making this film just to meet women (making this documentary reminiscent of Sherman's March and 20 Dates), and indeed at times this seems to be what Wexler is after. He dates two of Irene's clients and also brings to her a woman he began dating in California. The relationship between Nathan and Wexler is complex, and this charming and humorous film is an insightful exposé into finding a mate. --Jenny Brown
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Customer Reviews
Unsatisfying ...
This video is wonderful - for the first 50 minutes. Then the complexity of the relationship between Mark and Irene takes an unexpected turn and becomes rather disturbing. The filmaker skirts the issue by not exploring these complexities, and the video left me unsatisfied. Ultimately, I can't tell what the film maker was trying to achieve with this effort. It started out as a light hearted look at modern day mating efforts, switched to a focus on the film maker's own search, and finally Irene's unexplored psyche. Could have been great.....
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funny, touching film
Mark Wexler has a problem....he just can't seem to find or fall for Ms. Right. OK, he's picky, but his heart's in the right place. He seems nice, neat, successful; definitely not a loser, so go figure. Fix-ups, blind dates, double dates with his buddy's cousin's roommate, dating services, AOL ... well, you get the impression he's tried everything. Now, he decides to see how his problem might be handled by a professional matchmaker....not a modern, high tech operation, but a traditonal Old World matchmaker, right outta Hello Dolly. And the rest is....well, this film. This documentary (which plays out better than a lot of fictional screen efforts) follows Mark as he, ahem, decides to capture the matchmaker on video as she works with some of her clients. At the beginning, Mark is not one of those clients, but slowly he gets drawn into her "master plan" for him. Lots of telling interaction between the two main players and a host of clients and dates. This is the perfect gift for friends and family members who may suffer from Fear of Commitment, or meddlers who are always trying to fix you up! This film has won a number of prizes at indie festivals. Buy it. Trust me! Would I lie to you!
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funny, touching film
Mark Wexler has a problem....he just can't seem to find or fall for Ms. Right. OK, he's picky, but his heart's in the right place. He seems nice, neat, successful; definitely not a loser, so go figure. Fix-ups, blind dates, double dates with his buddy's cousin's roommate, dating services, AOL ... well, you get the impression he's tried everything. Now, he decides to see how his problem might be handled by a professional matchmaker....not a modern, high tech operation, but a traditonal Old World matchmaker, right outta Hello Dolly. And the rest is....well, this film. This documentary (which plays out better than a lot of fictional screen efforts) follows Mark as he, ahem, decides to capture the matchmaker on video as she works with some of her clients. At the beginning, Mark is not one of those clients, but slowly he gets drawn into her "master plan" for him. Lots of telling interaction between the two main players and a host of clients and dates. This is the perfect gift for friends and family members who may suffer from Fear of Commitment, or meddlers who are always trying to fix you up! This film has won a number of prizes at indie festivals. Buy it. Trust me! Would I lie to you!
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