At the turn of the century in Yonkers and New York, a busy, verbose and widowed matchmaker arranges everyone's love life and takes herself a rich husband.
Thoroughly professionally made and generally likeable musical from a long-running Broadway musical, that itself was based on a thin Thornton Wilder play. Despite its very handsome look, some excellent acting, virtuoso numbers and a plethora of sparkling, exhilarating revue sequences, the final result is a lengthy, entirely overblown and over-budgeted extravaganza that should have been made about twenty years earlier. In spite of her best efforts, too-young Barbra Streisand is fatally miscast, that makes a not-too-convincing premise even more risible at times.
Thoroughly professionally made and generally likeable musical from a long-running Broadway musical, that itself was based on a thin Thornton Wilder play. Despite its very handsome look, some excellent acting, virtuoso numbers and a plethora of sparkling, exhilarating revue sequences, the final result is a lengthy, entirely overblown and over-budgeted extravaganza that should have been made about twenty years earlier. In spite of her best efforts, too-young Barbra Streisand is fatally miscast, that makes a not-too-convincing premise even more risible at times.