My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

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Rating: PG
Release Date: Apr 19, 2002
Running Time: 95 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Joel Zwick
synopsis
Toula Portokalos' family from the suburbs of Chicago promotes exactly three traditional values - "Marry a Greek boy, have Greek babies, and feed everyone." From an early age, she is mortified by their patriotic 'over-the-top' ways. When she falls in love with Ian, a WASPy non-Greek, Toula struggles to get her family to accept her eager fiance while she herself comes to terms with her heritage, her cultural identity, and their meddlesome ways.
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April 10, 2002
In 1998, "second city" comic Nia Vardalos wrote and starred in a one-woman play about how she defied her Greek parents and married a non-Greek man. Rita Wilson, also Greek, saw the show, and now her husband, Tom Hanks, has produced the film with Vardalos in the lead.

Nice story, huh? Nice movie, too. Vardalos plays drab Toula Portokalos, stuck working at Dancing Zorba's, the Chicago restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (Michael Constantine) and Maria (Lainie Kazan). After a makeover, Toula falls… Continued

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A young Greek-American woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to convince her family to accept him up to the very day of her wedding.

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If you have ever been embarrassed by your big, loud family, then you will certainly relate to Toula (played by Nia Vardalos), the narrator and main character in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. After all, her suburban home is modeled after the Parthenon, and her father (played by Michael Constantine) believes a squirt of Windex can cure… Continued

cast + crew
Joel Zwick
Director
Nia Vardalos
Toula Portokalos
Louis Mandylor
Nick Portokalos
Ian Gomez
Mike
John Corbett
Ian Miller
Gia Carides
Nikki
Joey Fatone
Angelo
Andrea Martin
Aunt Voula
Bruce Gray
Rodney Miller
Michael Constantine
Gus Portokalos
Lainie Kazan
Maria Portokalos
Nia Vardalos
Play as Source Material
Nia Vardalos
Screenplay
Tom Hanks
Producer
Rita Wilson
Producer
Gary Goetzman
Producer
David Coatsworth
Co-Producer
Norm Waitt
Executive Producer
Paul Brooks
Executive Producer
Steven Shareshian
Executive Producer
Jim Milio
Co-Executive Producer
Melissa Jo Peltier
Co-Executive Producer
Mark Hufnail
Co-Executive Producer

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