Starring: Merritt Patterson, Joshua Sasse, Lynn Gilmartin, Meg Fraser, Callan Colley, Charlotte Chimes, Claire Weller Price, Mitchell Bourke
Runtime: 87 mins. Reviewed in Mar 2024
Reviewer: Fr Peter Malone msc
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Matchmaker Lucy Marks meets businessman Finn Grayson, and she immediately feels a spark. However, she then learns that he’s her new client. This is a date movie – literally. The title is that of a company that places people, dates and match, more personable than trawling a date site. Nearly 90 minutes of unremitting niceness. Not a harsh word, not a rude word heard throughout. Everyone and everything, even date meals which do not work out, is nice. Everything is ‘amazing’ or ‘cool’. This is what a perfect kind of Hallmark movie portrays as a lovely world. Sweetness and light.
Lucy (Patterson) began, and manages, her client-filled One Perfect Match Company. Within minutes of the start of the film, she encounters Finn (Joshua Sasse), a charmingly reticent Clark Kentish type (with Superman potential).
We know exactly what is going to happen, love at first sight, but can the matchmaker date a client? Lots of references to ethical considerations and professionalism, despite the urgings of Ella, her sister, and assistant, Paige. Ella is about to be married – and lots of lovely coincidences concerning chardonnay, a beautiful vineyard location for a wedding.
While set in the US, this is an Australian production, filmed in Brisbane, from the Steve Jaggi company which has specialised in this type of romance. The leading character is a Canadian actress, the leading man English. All the supporting cast are Australian. A nice, G-rated, and pleasantly un all demanding film for Romantics who want to sit back, relax and be charmed.
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