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My Big Fat Greek Wedding

starring: Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, John Corbett, Christina Eleusiniotis, Kaylee Vieira
directed by: Joel Zwick

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783122328
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783122322
Label: Hbo Home Video
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Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 636
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 2002



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Product Description:
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

Amazon.com:
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



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - OOPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I work in a Greek restaurant owned by a first generation Greek family, and I watched this movie after ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of those films that rarely comes along
I fell quickly in love with this movie the first time I ever saw it. A small-budget independent movie ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - A UNIQUELY STRANGE PHENOMENON - EXTREME MISREPRESENTATION TO THE POINT OF ACTUAL LEGAL DEFAMATION - LOOK IT UP!
I represent The Council of Greek Americans, a group of Greek professionals from North America. Many of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Transformation and Inspiration with Laughs
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is so much more than a romantic comedy... it is a laugh-out-loud story of a woman ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - A Big Fat Overrated Piece of Fluff
I just don't understand it. Why was this, a film about a mousy 30-something Greek woman getting a Pygmalion ... Read More

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