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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.
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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Reviews for My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is not only the best date movie of the year, it's also a -- dare I say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally American, I might add -- slice of comedic bliss.
As Toula, the frump who blossoms into a flower, Nia Vardalos delivers a lovely performance.
Some weddings make people cry. My Big Fat Greek Wedding will make you laugh until you cry 'Opa!'
It's as warm as a double shot of Ouzo, as exotic as chicken-lemon soup and as sweet as a plate of honey-dripped baklava.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film,' because it's about family.
It's a sweet, laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth.
Will Toula have an enormous, boisterous and eccentric family? Absolutely. Will Ian’s parents be the most uptight white people this side of a “Saturday Night Live” skit? Of course. Will love conquer all in the end? You bet.
One of the funniest, most joyous comedies to come along since the Greeks invented comedy.
If you come from a family that eats, meddles, argues, laughs, kibbitzes and fights together, then go see this delightful comedy.
There is so much goodwill here, you are charmed as much as tickled into laughing.
If viewers aren't looking for anything remotely sophisticated and don't mind the broad, repetitive comedy or potentially offensive stereotypes, they might just find themselves enjoying this lightweight film -- to some degree.
A comfortable and comforting film with pep and heart and charm enough to overcome its simplicities and deficiencies.
Despite its flaws, the movie leaves you feeling good, which is about all it aspires to.
What sets this romantic comedy apart from most Hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material.
While this modest film certainly isn't the equal of Monsoon Wedding in humor, insight or character development, it is fun.
A textbook example of how keeping it simple can yield big rewards -- and big laughs.
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