So why did I have such a good time at such a spectacularly middling movie? Nia Vardalos.
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06/02/09
My Life in Ruins (2009)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:11
Rotten:100
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
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
If 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
It's a movie that gets better as it chugs along, depending on your patience level.
06/05/09
Not a big departure from what Vardalos has done in the past, but there is less cloying artifice this time around, in a romantic comedy where the love story takes a backseat to the more meaningful tale of a lost woman coming into her own as a person.
06/04/09
The film contains a constant stream of lowbrow gags and pratfalls as Georgia lurches her way towards happiness, romance and a secure job in the Grecian tourist trade. It's lightweight, inoffensive fluff.
07/17/09
Vardalos is charming.
06/05/09
Top Critic"My Life in Ruins" is a stellar romantic comedy where ancient history and love meet.
06/08/09
For a movie filled with cliches, the laughs happen so frequently that you are able to forget about the fact that you have seen this movie a billion times before.
06/05/09
Pleasant but overly predictable travel comedy OK for teens.
06/11/09
Fans of fluff comedies filled with soft smiles and knowing glances will likely welcome the return of Nia Vardalos in My Life in Ruins.
06/05/09
The 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
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
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