'Ruins' is indeed an apt descriptor for this picture.
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06/05/09
My Life in Ruins (2009)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:11
Rotten:99
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: With stereotypical characters and a shopworn plot, My Life in Ruins is a charmless romantic comedy.
Theatrical Release:Jun 5, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $8,474,608
Synopsis: From Nia Vardalos, writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, comes the uplifting comedy My Life in Ruins. Georgia (Nia Vardalos) has lost her kefi (Greek for “mojo”). Discouraged by her lack... [More]
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Maria Adanez, Sheila Bernette
Director: Donald Petrie
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Reviews for My Life in Ruins
Top CriticEmbarrassingly bad. Will kill Greece tourism. A torturous bore.
06/02/09
It's not that this premise is so altogether improbable -- what tourist hasn't bonded with strangers while sharing close quarters in a foreign land? -- but that it feels tired from the start.
05/05/09
Top CriticMy Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life.
06/05/09
Top CriticThe film is sweet and has a jolly holiday feel but is sadly let down by Nia's unfunny acting.
10/04/09
This laboured romantic comedy has little to recommend it beyond the picture-postcard locations.
10/04/09
So why did I have such a good time at such a spectacularly middling movie? Nia Vardalos.
06/02/09
Half the time I wanted everyone to shut up so I could hear the tour guide lecture on the Temple of Hephaestus, or wherever. Then I wanted them to shut up so I could sleep.
06/05/09
Vardalos huffs that the culture that made her a millionaire is made of slackers, molesters and thieves.
06/05/09
We almost get to care about Georgia's fate, if it weren't for the fact that none of the film rings true and real
07/10/09
Feels like its been churned out by some auto-plot generator.
10/04/09
Might as well be called My Big Fat Greek Package Holiday.
10/04/09
It doesn’t feel genuine at all, it feels contrived from start to finish.
06/08/09
You know precisely where it’s headed and how it will get there halfway into Act One.
06/08/09
Together, Vardalos and Dreyfuss distract us from how manufactured, forced and reliant on national stereotypes and cultural clichés the film is. Barely.
06/05/09
What you wind up with is a comedy in ruins with the one exception of Richard Dreyfus, who plays a widowed jokester with such class and warmth, you can almost start liking American tourists again. Almost.
05/31/09
An aggressively awful opening 20 minutes gives way to over-the-top characterizations and an increasingly wan series of bits aping film moments we've all seen before, executed with more grace and charm.
06/12/09
As bubbly a talent as Vardalos is, Ruins is profoundly nauseating, and grows increasingly repellent the more it pushes to charm. Greece deserves a better travelogue than this, and a better spokeswoman than Nia Vardalos.
06/04/09
Through it all, Vardalos is a trouper, with a distinctive screen presence and delayed-reaction timing.
06/05/09
Top CriticIf the main character in a movie is going to be a pill, it's wise to cast an actor as engaging as Nia Vardalos.
06/05/09
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