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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

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Reviews Counted:121

Fresh:91

Rotten:30

Average Rating:6.7/10

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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    We like seeing some validation of what we’ve always suspected: that we don’t actually need to be a size 2 supermodel to be worthy of a guy like John Corbett.

    Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
    09/30/02
    MaryAnn Johanson
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    09/26/02
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    Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
    09/20/02
    This is London
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    One of those movies that keeps you with a silly grin on your face throughout the majority of its running time.

    Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    09/16/02
    Matt Easterbrook
    Matt Easterbrook
    Matt's Movie Reviews

    We're sitting around the storyteller as she tells us about her family and all their crazy personalities and relationships with each other. And we can smile knowingly because family dynamics are easily relatable.

    Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
    09/15/02
    Jeffrey Chen
    Jeffrey Chen
    Window to the Movies

    (An) ugly duckling fairytale that is predictable and brimming with clichés — but so earnest, funny and joyful that it's a complete delight all the same.

    Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
    09/15/02
    Rob Blackwelder
    Rob Blackwelder
    SPLICEDWire

    It would be enjoyed by anyone who has been married, is married, wants to get married, or knows someone who is married.

    Full Review Source: Countingdown.com | comment Comment
    09/12/02
    Larry Carroll
    Larry Carroll
    Countingdown.com

    While I found the film of average entertainment, my friend loved it.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
    09/11/02
    Ross Anthony
    Ross Anthony
    Hollywood Report Card

    a delightfully warm-hearted look at the joys and exasperations of both family and ethnic heritage, an ode to everyday people and the joys of romance turning into lifelong love.

    Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
    09/10/02
    James Kendrick
    James Kendrick
    Q Network Film Desk

    This will have all non-Greeks in the audience wishing they could lay claim to some Mediterranean heritage.

    Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
    09/10/02
    Jamie Russell
    Jamie Russell
    BBC

    Vardalos certainly has a strong screen presence (physical humor is her strong suit) though her script is considerably lazy.

    Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
    08/31/02
    Ed Gonzalez
    Ed Gonzalez
    Slant Magazine

    Folks will come away from the film mistaking a warmth for their own experiences with an over-abundance of affection for My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    08/27/02
    Walter Chaw
    Walter Chaw
    Film Freak Central

    I mean it only in the best sense when I say that My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a really nice movie.

    Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
    08/27/02
    Mike McGranaghan
    Mike McGranaghan
    Aisle Seat

    Exactly what its title implies: lusty, boisterous and utterly charming.

    Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
    08/26/02
    Jonathan R. Perry
    Jonathan R. Perry
    Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

    A film of pure delight from beginning to end.

    Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    08/25/02
    Betty Jo Tucker
    Betty Jo Tucker
    ReelTalk Movie Reviews

    The best date movie since When Harry Met Sally.

    Full Review Source: KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) | comment Comment
    08/22/02
    Danny Minton
    Danny Minton
    KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX)

    A simple but likeable film that points out its characters' foibles while retaining an affection for their eccentricities.

    Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | comment Comment
    08/20/02
    Adam Nayman
    Adam Nayman
    eye WEEKLY

    A circus full of wacky and interesting characters.

    Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | comment Comment
    08/18/02
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
    Goatdog's Movies

    Balances the specifics of the Greek-American culture with the transcendent universalities of family dynamics and makes you want to hug your own family.

    Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
    08/17/02
    Nell Minow
    Nell Minow
    Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

    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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