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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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    A robust romantic comedy filled with high spirits and a celebration of ethnicity.

    Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
    04/19/02
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Spirituality and Practice

    Unfunny standard-issue ethnic mix-'em-up.

    Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
    04/18/02
    Harvey S. Karten
    Harvey S. Karten
    Compuserve

    An amiable, offhanded comedy about ethnic identity and last-chance romance.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    04/18/02
    Dave Kehr
    Dave Kehr
    New York Times
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    The result is a rare delight: A romantic comedy that's both deeply romantic and very funny.

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    04/18/02
    Ken Fox
    Ken Fox
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    There's such a good-natured heart beating beneath the cliches that it's easy to appreciate the film's willingness to poke gentle fun without a whiff of nastiness or judgment.

    Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
    04/18/02
    Paula Nechak
    Paula Nechak
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Sluggishly directed by episodic TV veteran Joe Zwick, it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle.

    Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
    04/18/02
    Jane Sumner
    Jane Sumner
    Dallas Morning News
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    So good-natured and life-loving, and Vardalos' Toula is so quick-witted and adorable, that we have little problem understanding why Ian would want to get in on the fun.

    Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
    04/18/02
    Terry Lawson
    Terry Lawson
    Detroit Free Press
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    Tres Greek writer and star Nia Vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script.

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    04/18/02
    Gregory Weinkauf
    Gregory Weinkauf
    New Times

    It looks more like a film designed for the small screen. But, like Toula, is has a good-natured personality.

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    04/18/02
    Kirk Honeycutt
    Kirk Honeycutt
    Hollywood Reporter
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    Vardalos's parodies of Greek family values are loving and witheringly hilarious.

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    04/16/02
    Leslie Camhi
    Leslie Camhi
    Village Voice

    Like Vardalos and Corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by Joel Zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake.

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    04/15/02
    Peter Travers
    Peter Travers
    Rolling Stone
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    An entertaining and good-spirited romance that celebrates the marvelous possibilities of life. Don't be surprised if you find yourself dancing out of the theater.

    Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
    04/11/02
    Steve Rhodes
    Steve Rhodes
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    A comedy that, if not exactly a gutbuster, is one that is consistently charming, and that is due to the fresh voice and presence of writer/star Nia Vardalos.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
    04/09/02
    Michael Dequina
    Michael Dequina
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