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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: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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    Full of obvious humour and stereotyped characters, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is nonetheless delightful, mostly because the movie does not pretend to be anything it isn't.

    Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
    08/16/02
    Liz Braun
    Liz Braun
    Jam! Movies

    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
    Rick Groen
    Globe and Mail

    This isn't a groundbreaking movie ... but its situations are so recognizable and universal that you don't need to be Greek to appreciate it.

    Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
    08/15/02
    Bob Bloom
    Bob Bloom
    Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
    08/02/02
    Guylaine Cadorette
    Guylaine Cadorette
    Hollywood.com

    An embarrassment, a film so humiliating to everyone involved, it is shocking that protesters haven't come out of the woodwork to scream bloody murder.

    Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
    07/30/02
    Eugene Novikov
    Eugene Novikov
    Film Blather

    An alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom...you'd be wise to send your regrets.

    Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
    07/30/02
    Frank Swietek
    Frank Swietek
    One Guy's Opinion

    ...manages — by virtue of its uncommon geniality — to convince us it’s about genuine human beings.

    Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
    07/26/02
    Philip Martin
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Out loud laughing, full of heart and humor and just wonderful feeling. Dare I say, a triumph!

    Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
    07/25/02
    Karina Montgomery
    Karina Montgomery
    Cinerina

    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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    Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
    07/21/02
    Rich Cline
    Rich Cline
    Shadows on the Wall

    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

    Though likable, its stock brand of comedy makes “Meet The Parents” look like a magnum opus of comic achievement by comparison.

    Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment Comment
    07/11/02
    Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett
    Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

    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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    This romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in.

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    07/02/02
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    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
    Charles Taylor
    Salon.com

    This is a very funny, heartwarming film. It has fun with the quirks of family life, but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect.

    Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
    06/25/02
    Robert Roten
    Robert Roten
    Laramie Movie Scope

    Even if you can't pronounce "gyro" correctly, you'll appreciate much of Vardalos' humor, which transcends ethnic boundaries.

    Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
    06/18/02
    James Sanford
    James Sanford
    Kalamazoo Gazette
    N/R

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    Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
    06/13/02
    Arizona Republic

    Perhaps the makers of My Big Fat Greek Wedding subscribe to the Quentin Crisp theory of housekeeping %u2013 "After the first four years, the dust doesn't get any worse" %u2013 but this feels more like 70 years of dust, and badly in need of an airing out.

    Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
    06/11/02
    Ken Hanke
    Ken Hanke
    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
     
     
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