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
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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

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Toula Portokalos
Nick Portokalos
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Ian Miller
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Rodney Miller
Gus Portokalos
Maria Portokalos
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