My Big Fat Greek WeddingMy Big Fat Greek Wedding

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    One woman's rocky road to the altar gets played for laughs in this comedy, adapted from the one-woman off-Broadway show written by and starring Nia Vardalos. Toula (Vardalos) is a Greek-American woman who is in her early thirties and single, with no immediate prospects of changing that status any time soon. This bothers Toula a bit, but not half as much as it distresses her mother (Lainie Kazan) and father (Michael Constantine), who want to send her to Greece in hopes of finding a husband in the old country. Toula isn't interested in leaving the country to find a man, but since she works in the family business -- a Greek restaurant in Chicago called Dancing Zorba's -- she has to hear about it whether she likes it or not. One day, after seeing a handsome stranger in the restaurant and not having the courage to talk to him, Toula decides she needs a bit of self-improvement. Despite her dad's misgivings, Toula signs up for a night-school class studying computers, trades in her glasses for contact lenses, gets a different job at a travel agency, and spruces herself up with a new look and a new attitude. To her very pleasant surprise, she once again encounters the handsome stranger, who soon asks her out on a date. Schoolteacher Ian Miller (John Corbett) is seemingly perfect -- he's tall, handsome, smart, good-natured, and soon in love with Toula -- except for two little things: he's not Greek, and he's a vegetarian, both of which horrify Toula's family. When Ian pops the question (and Toula says yes), the bride-to-be has to negotiate a reasonably peaceful meeting between Ian's upper-class parents and her own working-class extended family. There's also the matter of the wedding, which Toula's mother is planning around the notion that quantity IS quality. My Big Fat Greek Wedding also features Ian Gomez (Vardalos' real-life husband), Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin, and Joey Fatone (from the pop group *NSYNC). Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson helped produce the film through the auspices of their production company, Playtone. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Subtitle: Mult
  • Features:
    • Audio commentaries by stars Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, and director Joel Zwick
    • Both widescreen and full-frame versions on sigle-sided disc
    • Cast biographies
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Nominated Best Original Screenplay - 2002 (Nia Vardalos)
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Ensemble Acting - 2003
  •     Nominated Best Screenplay - 2003 (Nia Vardalos)
  •     Nominated Best Acting Ensemble - 2002
  •     Nominated Best Writer - 2002 (Nia Vardalos)
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com - 2002 (Nia Vardalos)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 2002
  • Independent Spirit Awards
  •     Won Best Debut Performance - 2002 (Nia Vardalos)
  • Writers Guild of America
  •     Nominated Best Original Screenplay - 2002 (Nia Vardalos)
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REVIEW:
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a modest, likeable comedy, would have been less effective if it had been put through the Hollywood system. Nia Vardalos's script has enough Hollywood convention in it that having a newcomer in the lead automatically brings to it a freshness that a romantic comedy superstar like Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock would have had a difficult time mustering. There is no cynicism in the film, which may make it difficult for some viewers to take. Vardalos and the rest of the performers seem genuinely amused by the cliched scenarios and the familiar bits of comedic business they are given to play. They either find new ways to make the material work, or simply radiate goodwill toward each other and the audience to such an extent that the audience reciprocates. Maintaining a charming ease for its entire ninety-five minute running time, Vardalos and her cast desire nothing but the commendable goal of entertaining their audience. This is an unabashedly warm and friendly film that was seemingly made for all the right reasons. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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