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The Match Factory Girl

1990

Comedy/ Crime/ Drama

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Duration: 69 min

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Language: fi

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Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who thought she was a prostitute, she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge...—Michael Brooke

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