My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
“Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family’s restaurant, Dancing Zorba’s, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it’s his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt’s travel agency (again making her father think it’s his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula’s huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself. Written by Jon Reeves {jreeves@imdb.com}”
- Director: Joel Zwick
- Release Date:
2 August 2002 (USA)
- Run Time:
95 min
- Country: USA , Canada
- Genre: Comedy , Romance
- MPAA:
Rated PG for sensuality and language.
Tagline: Love is here to stay… so is her family.
Trivia: Tom Hanks’s wife, Rita Wilson, saw the play and recommended that her husband produce a movie version. In an interview with the German magazine “Cinema”, Nia Vardalos mentioned that she hung up when Hanks called, because she didn’t believe it was really him.
Goofs: Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Maria is telling her daughter about her life in Greece and why she left, it is obvious that the audio has been re-dubbed.
