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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: 119

Fresh: 91

Rotten:28

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 Toula (NIA VARDALOS). Still unmarried... “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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Jan 31, 2006

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  • (Romantic Comedy) Toula Portokalos is a devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working at her father's restaurant, she hides behind a mop of mousy brown hair and thick glasses, keeping her family close and the world at a distance. But one day, she finds herself pouring coffee for a man so strikingly good-looking, that he inspires her to change her life -- and the way she sees the world -- forever.
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    06/24/06
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    12/06/05
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    Endearing eccentricities, such as Toula's father's improvisational Greek etymologies of words like "kimono" and his reliance on Windex for a range of external-use medicinal purposes, help humanize the characters.

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    06/27/03
    Steven D. Greydanus
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    It’s funny, it’s familiar and you can see a lot of the situations transferring over to your own life.

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    06/10/03
    Ryan Cracknell
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    05/28/03
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    05/20/03
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    04/05/03
    Andrea Chase
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    Vardalos is not a great actress, but she is a likeable one ... John Corbett will never steer you wrong ... a cute premise, but it has all been done before

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
    03/23/03
    Brian Mckay
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    ...los actores parecen estar divirtiéndose a lo grande.

    Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
    03/11/03
    Enrique Buchichio
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    The family-friendly film avoids pitfalls, but the DVD is skimpy.

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    02/17/03
    Mark Robison
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    Now, Nia Vardalos will jump out of your movie screen or television set...and club you over the head with a bottle of Windex until you give in to her aggressively overbearing humor!

    Full Review Source: AboutFilm.com | comment 1 Comment
    02/08/03
    Carlo Cavagna
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    ...Captures the nature of true romance, with just enough slapstick (a Greek invention) to make you laugh out loud.

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    02/08/03
    John R. McEwen
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    The actors...bring out an attractive, warmhearted simplicity in each character. Above all, they portray a close, loving family, the film's ultimate and lasting virtue.

    Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
    01/28/03
    John J. Puccio
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    Es un entrañable filme sobre el amor, la familia, las tradiciones, la consecución de los sueños y la tolerancia.'

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    01/27/03
    Jorge Avila Andrade
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    A cute little movie whose success proves that wherever they can find it, people will rise up and embrace the most mediocre, bland, and reassuring forms of art.

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    01/16/03
    Blake Davis
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    Almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like "The Addams Family" to everyone looking in... "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" comes from the heart...

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    01/08/03
    Kevin A. Ranson
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    On the whole, this film didn't make me laugh much, didn't make me 'aaaaaah' much and didn't give me any more insight into its astronomical popularity.

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    12/30/02
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    Although films of this flavor depend primarily on their comic timing to win over an audience, director Joel Zwick finds other outlets of brilliance...

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    12/27/02
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