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2 August 2002 (USA) moreTagline:
Love is here to stay... so is her family.Plot:
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 16 wins & 23 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(190 articles)
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A simple story about a girl in love. moreUS TV Schedule:
| Sat. July 18 | 8:00 PM | FAM | |||
| Sun. July 19 | 2:00 PM | FAM |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Nia Vardalos | ... | Toula Portokalos | |
| Michael Constantine | ... | Gus Portokalos | |
| Christina Eleusiniotis | ... | Toula Portokalos - Age 6 | |
| Kaylee Vieira | ... | Schoolgirl | |
| John Kalangis | ... | Greek Teacher | |
| Lainie Kazan | ... | Maria Portokalos | |
| Marita Zouravlioff | ... | Toula Portokalos - Age 12 | |
| Sarah Osman | ... | Athena Portokalos - Age 15 | |
| Petra Wildgoose | ... | Car Pool Friend | |
| Melissa Todd | ... | Car Pool Friend | |
| Bess Meisler | ... | Yiayia | |
| Andrea Martin | ... | Aunt Voula | |
| Louis Mandylor | ... | Nick Portokalos | |
| Gerry Mendicino | ... | Uncle Taki | |
| Stavroula Logothettis | ... | Athena |
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Also Known As:
Le mariage grec (Canada: French title) (TV title)Mariage à la grecque (Canada: French title)
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Rated PG for sensuality and language.Parents Guide:
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95 minColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby SRCertification:
Australia:PG (TV rating) | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Canada:G (British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:o.Al. (w) | Italy:T | Netherlands:AL | Peru:PT | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG (certificate #38179) | Ireland:PGFun Stuff
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The film had a special sneak preview at the Montreal Just For Laughs's Comedia film festival in July 2001, as Nia Vardalos was in town performing her one-woman show. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The house of the Greek family is referred to as having Corinthian columns, like the Parthenon. While the columns on the house are in fact Corinthian, the architecture of the Parthenon is Doric, which dates several hundreds of years earlier than the Corinthian (more ornamented) style. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Gus Portokalos: [to Toula] You better get married soon. You're starting to look... old!
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very simple, funny romance story that would probably be most appreciated by female audiences.
Nia Vardalos (the film's writer and star) is Toula Portokalos, a quiet young woman from a zany Greek family. As she explains in the great flashback introduction, all her life she has been brought up to be strictly Greek. But, the same upbringing also contains some traditional absuridites that she can't understand, although her parent's wish that she would adhere to. Toula's upbringing has only allowed her to look forward to one thing at this point in her life: get married to a nice Greek boy and have lots of babies.
This is not something Toula wants to here, and eventually, she gains the courage to break out of her introverted shield and gradually change herself into a bold, lovely woman. She stops working at her family's resturaunts and starts taking computer classes at the local college, which lead her not only to a better appreciation for herself, but leads to a job at her aunt's travel agency where she meets Ian Miller (Jon Corbet), and that is where our story begins.
Toula and Ian are in love, really very much so. But, this troubles Toula's mother and father, with her father (Michael Constantine) being more strict in traditional Greek upbringing than her mother (Lanie Kazan), when Ian proposes to Toula. For Toula's father, it is bad enough that she quit the family business to go to school and everything. But it is simply out of the question for him that she marry a non-Greek. So, Toula is torn between the two. This is a movie very much in the spirit of films like Bend it Like Beckham and somewhat like the Joy Luck Club in addressing roles of tradition in future generations of immigrants and the possibility and reason for preservation of such traditions.
Of course the film is a very simple movie, a simple love story, but a funny one nonetheless. We see the contrast between Toula's Greek upbringing, and Ian's very quiet, conservative family. Everyone was fantastic in this film, especially Lainie Kazan as Toula's mom, Michael Constantine as her father, and the wonderfully hilarious Andrea Martin as Toula's Aunt Voula.
I don't know the reason for so many negative reviews for this movie. I would say it was probably the best movie I saw in 2002, and one that I have seen many times since just because it a lovely little (and funny) story about a girl in love.