Toula Portakalos (Nia Vardalos) feels trapped in her large Greek family, where women are expected to do only three things: "marry Greek men, have Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day they die." Rebelling against this fate, Toula quits the family restaurant, goes to college, fixes her hair, and falls in love with Ian (.. Read more
| Starring | Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan |
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| Director | Joel Zwick |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Toula Portakalos (Nia Vardalos) feels trapped in her large Greek family, where women are expected to do only three things: "marry Greek men, have Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day they die." Rebelling against this fate, Toula quits the family restaurant, goes to college, fixes her hair, and falls in love with Ian (John Corbett), a guy who is way-too-good-to-be-true, and not Greek. This horrifies Toula's Greek culture-crazed father (Michael Constantine) and sets off a major culture clash between her loud, eccentric family (whose activities include roasting whole lambs on the front-yard barbecue spit) and Ian's subdued, overcivilized Anglo-Saxon parents.
Based on Vardalos' own autobiographical one-woman play, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING is that rare romantic comedy that has the courage to trust its simple, human story and not resort to overwrought Hollywood sentimentality and phoney glamour (all the characters in the film look and act like real people). It's also filled with big, fat, crowd-pleasing laughs, making it a wedding most worth attending. Co-produced by Tom Hanks, the movie is set in Chicago, but was filmed in Toronto. The spirited cast includes Lainie Kazan and Andrea Martin (of SCTV fame) as Toula's mom and aunt.
| Starring | Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan |
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| Director | Joel Zwick |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Rom-Coms, Muller's Indulgent Movies |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2002 To Rent: DVD: 24 Mar 2003 |
Warm and lively comedy that is just saved from its reliance on stereotyped characters and situations by its generous humanity.
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If you have a Greek ...
If you have a Greek family you'll laugh like a drain. If not, I suspect some of the funnies will be lost on you. Enjoyable even for non Greeks though.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Great laughs, loved it. A good film for popcorn and a few glasses of wine or beer on a Friday night when you just want to collapse after a hard week!
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Simple and enjoyable
Not a super amazing film. It's just a little simple story, but filled with fun. easy to watch as an entertainment in the spare time.
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all greek to me
A light hearted amusing film,with no swearing.Good for anybody.
Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos have helped Florida authorities stage an intervention to save an allegedly suicidal man after they responded to his worrying message on social networking site Twitter.com. The stars were among hundreds of people who replied to a post from a young man who threatened to hang himself in Casselberry, near Orlando in the early hours of Friday (19Mar10). Moore appealed to the youngster with the username 'jeremyllynch' by writing, "R U rlly (really) asking 4 (for) Read more
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