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Director: Joel Zwick
Rated: PG
Score: 8/10
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| My Big FAT Greek Wedding |
Stars: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan Director: Joel Zwick Rated: PG Score: 8/10 |
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| Fotoula Portokalos is of Greek heritage. She's always known her whole life she is supposed to marry a Greek man, have tons of babies, and cook. That is the destiny of a Greek woman. Now 30 and quite frumpy, she works at her parents resturaunt as a waitress. She is considered too old to ever hope for marriage and her family is troubled. Toula is unhappy with her life, not because she is single, but because she isn't allowed to be anything more than a wife. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| After much persuasion, her father lets her go to college. He is very proud of his heritage, and practices it religiously. He can show you how any words root is Greek, and he thinks windex is the cure-all for any medical problem. Her mother is very nosey, loves to cook and is traditional in every way. But she asserts that while the male is the head of the house - the women is the neck and the neck can turn the head to whichever way she wants. Toula only ever wanted to be normal, and have a normal family. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toula is transformed by school and gets a job, where she by chance meets the man of her dreams. His name is Ian, he's a teacher. They have quite a romance, meeting secretly and she is swept off of her feet by their long talks and a connection she's never felt before. But there's a problem, Ian isn't Greek. He's about as white bread as they come and when her family finds out all hell breaks loose. But Ian proposes marriage and she accepts, and there begins a whirlwind of arguements and culture conflicts that will test their love for eachother, and her family's love for her. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This is a really fun movie with alot of laughs, most of them coming from Toula's family who are characters in themselves. Then there are the reserved in-laws who are quite stale by comparison. But it's not that much of a stretch from the truth, these are perhaps two extremes of the spectrum, and most of us probably know people like one or the other. This movie is a guaranteed comedy sure to please. John Corbett gives an equally pleasing performance as the fiance with the "bedroom eyes". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ian gets "oiled up" by his new Godmother during his Baptism into the Greek church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We empathize with Toula, she spends most of her life never feeling like she is good enough by her parents standards. She just wants to be happy, and they just want her to be happy. But they think happiness lies in having a family. And it does, to the extent of simply having people in your life to love and accept you. She realized that her happiness lied in self confidence and independence and that would have been enough for her. But Toula is lucky, while in the process of bettering herself she reeled in a catch. Perhaps not the exact fish she was expecting but one worth keeping. Toula found out one thing, she could have her wedding cake...and eat it too. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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