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My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:18

Rotten:7

Average Rating:6.3/10

Consensus: Though it sometimes feels like a television sitcom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is good-hearted and lovable.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for sensuality and language

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Apr 19, 2002 Limited

Box Office: $241,250,669

Synopsis: “Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.” Toula Portokalos Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about... “Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.” Toula Portokalos Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (NIA VARDALOS). Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba’s, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (MICHAEL CONSTANTINE) and Maria (LAINIE KAZAN) and smells like garlic bread. Vowing that she’d rather stab herself in the eye with a red-hot poker than work in the restaurant for the rest of her life, Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not. After taking a job at her aunt’s travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller (JOHN CORBETT), a high school teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn’t sure which will be more upsetting to her old-fashioned father, that Ian is a Xeno (foreigner) or that he’s a vegetarian. But none of it matters once he asks her to marry him. Toula knows that if he can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church...their big fat Greek wedding, including one powder blue limousine, two ice sculptures and ten bridesmaids in turquoise dresses, will be a piece of cake, five layers high with a plastic staircase and a fountain of champagne. -- © 2002 IFC Films [More]

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, John Corbett

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, John Corbett, Joey Fatone, Andrea Martin, Lainie Kazan, Bruce Gray

Director: Joel Zwick

Director: Joel Zwick
Screenwriter: Nia Vardalos
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Rita Wilson
Composer: Alexander Djanko, Chris Wilson
Studio: IFC Films

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  • Toula is 30. And unmarried. Which means as a nice Greek girl -- she's a failure. All her cousins did the right thing -- married Greek boys and made Greek babies. So everyone worries: what will become of Toula? Then one day she sees the ultimate unattainable guy and realizes the only way her life will get better is if she gets away from her big, fat Greek family. Toula escapes from the family restaurant. She exchanges her seating hostess jacket for a college diploma, convinces her aunt to give her a new job, and trades in her coke-bottle glasses for contact lenses, just in time for "him" to walk back into her life. Ian Miller is tall, handsome but definitely not Greek. Their courtship is an Olympian culture clash. Can Ian handle Toula, her parents, her aunts, uncles, cousins and several centuries of Greek heritage? Will Toula discover the love she's been missing right in the heart of her big, fat family? One thing is for sure, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.
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    Reviews for My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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    Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
    05/28/03
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    Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
    11/06/02
    Jeff Strickler
    Jeff Strickler
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
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    You don't have to be Greek to enjoy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and that's precisely the point of it.

    Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
    08/16/02
    Peter Howell
    Peter Howell
    Toronto Star
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very slim movie that succeeds on its own modest terms without pretense or apology. No wonder it's easy to like.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    08/16/02
    Rick Groen
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    The movie is consistently funny without ever going over the top -- a rarity in movies.

    Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
    07/25/02
    James Berardinelli
    James Berardinelli
    ReelViews
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    The reliability of the genre doesn't excuse predictable jokes, pat fiascoes and so many stereotypes that one is tempted to alert the Greek anti-defamation league.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
    07/20/02
    Loren King
    Loren King
    Chicago Tribune
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    Wedding feels a bit anachronistic. Still, not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak, and a happy ending is no cinematic sin.

    Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
    07/19/02
    Claudia Puig
    Claudia Puig
    USA Today
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    As a witness to several Greek-American weddings -- but, happily, a victim of none -- I can testify to the comparative accuracy of Ms. Vardalos' memories and insights.

    Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
    07/11/02
    Andrew Sarris
    Andrew Sarris
    New York Observer
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    With tiny little jokes and nary an original idea, this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pool.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
    06/28/02
    Charles Taylor
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    Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
    06/13/02
    Arizona Republic
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    There is so much goodwill here, you are charmed as much as tickled into laughing.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    05/10/02
    Desson Thomson
    Desson Thomson
    Washington Post
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    Despite its flaws, the movie leaves you feeling good, which is about all it aspires to.

    Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
    05/10/02
    Eric Harrison
    Eric Harrison
    Houston Chronicle
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    While this modest film certainly isn't the equal of Monsoon Wedding in humor, insight or character development, it is fun.

    Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
    05/10/02
    Steven Rosen
    Steven Rosen
    Denver Post
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    This is an affectionate and good-hearted movie that could've been a whole lot better and could've been a whole lot worse.

    Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
    05/09/02
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    A fun ride.

    Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
    04/22/02
    Richard Roeper
    Richard Roeper
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    It's a buoyant comedy with more warmth and generosity of spirit than anything else in theaters right now.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    04/19/02
    Mick LaSalle
    Mick LaSalle
    San Francisco Chronicle
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    The beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor.

    Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
    04/19/02
    Susan Stark
    Susan Stark
    Detroit News
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    Delivers a sugar rush without the calories.

    Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
    04/19/02
    Megan Turner
    Megan Turner
    New York Post
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    The wedding ... turns the very concept of 'Greek' into the sort of hideous, pandering clichés that look rejected from bad Jewish and Italian sitcoms.

    Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
    04/19/02
    Owen Gleiberman
    Owen Gleiberman
    Entertainment Weekly
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    Warm-hearted in the way a movie can be when it knows its people inside out.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
    04/19/02
    Roger Ebert
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