- A Match Made in Heaven
Infobox Film
name = A Match Made in Heaven
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caption = Cast of "A Match Made in Heaven"
director =Paul Wendkos
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writer =Susan Rice
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starring =Olympia Dukakis John Stamos Kelly Rowan Della Reese
music =Don Davis
cinematography =Chuck Arnold
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released = 1997
runtime = 120 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0119631"A Match Made in Heaven" is a 1997
television movie inspired by actual events. It is about a dying widow who plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets. The film starsOlympia Dukakis ,John Stamos andKelly Rowan .Cast
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Olympia Dukakis as Helen Rosner
*John Stamos as Thomas "Tom" Rosner
*Kelly Rowan as Jane Cronin
*Della Reese as Katie Beale
*Mitchell Whitfield as Gordon Rosner
*Stephanie Erb as Allyce RosnerPlot
Thomas "Tom" Rosner (Stamos) is a successful lawyer and happens to be a good catch. However, his unmarried state is the greatest sorrow of his mother, Helen (Dukakis), who is a cancer patient.
As Helen visits the hospital for a check-up, she encounters her doctor's new nurse, Jane Cronin (Rowan), a single woman who is hesitant to meet someone new after getting out of a five-year relationship. She is taken by Jane's beauty, compassion, intelligence and sense of humor, and immediately decides that she is the one for her son. Helen plays matchmaker between the two of them, much to the chagrin of her longtime caretaker, Katie Beale (Reese).
Tom and Jane decided to humor Helen by going out on a date, but Tom was wrong in assuming that Jane likes him. In turn, Jane tells Helen that her date was "the worst social experience since the dawn of man." Undeterred, Helen manages to convince Jane to go out with Tom again. The second date goes successfully, but this time, Tom is afraid to commit because he felt he wasn't the kind of man Jane was looking for.
Helen succeeds in making her son see Jane again by employing jealousy, but just as things were going well between the couple, she learns that her cancer is back. This fuels her determination to finally get Tom to settle down with Jane, which frustrates Katie into telling her that she is meddling so much with her son's life that she is not allowing him to move on and live it on his own. Meanwhile, a torn-apart Tom goes back to his old ways and meets a girl at a bar who he reluctantly takes home with him.
Jane encounters the girl and flees Tom immediately. Tom becomes withdrawn and depressed, not only because of Jane, but also because of his mother's illness.
Meanwhile, as Helen's condition worsens, she begins to realize that she is not going to be around forever to look after her son.
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*imdb title|id=0119631|title=A Match Made in Heaven
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