My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 CanadianAmerican romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. The film is centered on Fotoula Toula Portokalos, a Greek American woman who falls in love with a nonGreek upper middle class White AngloSaxon Protestant Ian Miller. At the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. A sleeper hit, the film became the highestgrossing romantic comedy of all time, and grossed 241.4 million in North America, despite never reaching number one at the box office during its release the highestgrossing film to accomplish this feat.
Fotoula Toula Portokalos Nia Vardalos is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty, having had her childhood, adolescence and adult life plagued by bad luck, she feels that she is the only woman in her family who has failed at being a typical Greek girl. Her family expects her to be more like her 33yearold sister Athena Stavroula Logothettis and marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day she dies. Instead, Toula is stuck working in the family restaurant in Chicago, Dancing Zorbas. Frumpy and cynical, she fears that she is doomed to be stuck with her life as it is and always has been. One day while at the restaurant, Toula briefly becomes enamored with and embarrasses herself in front of Ian Miller John Corbett, a handsome school teacher.An argument with her overlypatriotic father Gus Michael Constantine, who merely wants his daughter to marry and settle down rather than pursue a career, causes Toula to want her own life away from the restaurant and her intrusive family. After some persuasion by his wife, Maria Lainie Kazan, Gus reluctantly permits Toula to begin taking computer classes at a local community college. Toula then trades her glasses for contact lenses, curls her hair, and begins to wear makeup, improving her confidence, mood and selfesteem. Armed with her skills, Toula convinces her mother and her Aunt Voula Andrea Martin to get Gus to allow Toula to work at Voulas travel agency instead of the restaurant. ........
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