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Actors: Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, John Corbett, Christina Eleusiniotis, Kaylee Vieira Director: Joel Zwick Rating: Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 95 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: February 11, 2003 Theatrical Release Date: August 2, 2002 Studio: Hbo Home Video
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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.Running Time: 95 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359199325 Manufacturer No: 91993
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
