My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. At the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It had the highest gross profit in one year, $241,438,208, over The Day After Tomorrow.
The movie is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a Greek-American woman (Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script), who falls in love with a ...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. At the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It had the highest gross profit in one year, $241,438,208, over The Day After Tomorrow.
The movie is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a Greek-American woman (Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script), who falls in love with a non-Greek protestant fellow, Ian Miller (played by John Corbett).
Toula is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty, she is the only woman in her family who has "failed": her family expects her to "marry a Greek, have Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die." Instead, Toula is stuck working in the family business, a restaurant. In contrast to her "perfect" sister, Athena (Stavroula Logothetis), Toula is frumpy and cynical. She fears she's doomed to be stuck with her life as it is.
At the restaurant, she encounters Ian...
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