My Big Fat Greek Wedding
by Joel Zwick
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Actor: Christina Eleusiniotis, John Corbett, Kaylee Vieira, Michael Constantine, Nia VardalosDirector: Joel Zwick
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Nia Vardalos
Producer: David Coatsworth
Producer: Gary Goetzman
Producer: Jim Milio
Producer: Mark Hufnail
Producer: Melissa Jo Peltier
Producer: Norm Waitt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Greek (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Movie Review: Alledged Romanic "Comedy".....Long Bore
Summary: 2 Stars
A Greek family's daughter marries a WASP. Let the hi-jinks begin...or not. Straining for laughs and unoriginal. Actors do their best with the overused idea of a wedding-planning filled with mishaps. One viewing is plenty. Predictable and needing someone by you to laugh-out-loud to make you smile, laugh or think it is funny. This film to me was one long bore. Forgettable story you would might think is better suited for television except it failed on the boob tube. I noticed they aren't selling new DVDs of this anymore. Not surprised. Mainly for women who think men will stand by them through all because of L..O..V..E. A fantasy.
Summary of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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 he 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 give her 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 defnitely 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, for richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Biographies
Scene Access
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
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