Other Titles • My Big Fat Greek Wedding • Mariage à la grecque (2002)
Synopses for My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
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Love is here to stay... so is her family.
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 giver he 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, richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal, Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.
(20 votes)
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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). Vowing that she'd rather stab herself 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.
(20 votes)
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It's not surprising that My Big Fat Greek Wedding grew more popular over the course of its theatrical release (whereas most blockbusters open big and then drop precipitously)--not only does it have believable situations and engaging characters, but these characters (particularly our romantic heroine, Toula, played by writer and performer Nia Vardalos) look like actual human beings instead of plastic movie stars. The result is the very accessible tale of Greek-American Toula (whose family sees her as over the hill at 30), who falls for a WASPy guy named Ian (John Corbett) and then has to endure the outrage, doubt, and ultimate acceptance of her deeply ethnically centered family. The actors invest their wildly stereotypical portrayals with sincerity and compassion, giving the movie an honest warmth instead of Hollywood schmaltz. But My Big Fat Greek Wedding ultimately succeeds because of Vardalos; her intelligent, down-to-earth presence and charm carry the film. --Bret Fetzer
(18 votes)
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"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.
"MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING," a romantic comedy from The Playtone Company, is based on the one-woman show written by and starring "Second City" alumna Nia Vardalos. Directed by Joel Zwick and adapted for the screen by Vardalos, the film is produced by Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Gary Goetzman. Norm Waitt, Paul Brooks and Steven Shareshian serve as Executive Producers. Jim Milio, Melissa Do Peltier and Mark Hufnail (of
MPH Entertainment) are Co-executive producers. Jeffrey Jur is the film's director of photography, Gregory Keen is the production designer and Mia Goldman will edit the film. IFC Films is releasing the film theatrically.
Also starring are ANDREA MARTIN as Aunt Voula, JOEY FATONE as cousin Angelo, CIA CARIDES as cousin Nikki, LOUIS MANDYLOR as Toula's brother Nick, BESS MEISLER as Yip Yia, FIONA REID as Hayley Miller, BRUCE GRAY as Rodney Miller and IAN GOMEZ as Mike.
(17 votes)
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