This is a big fat wet smooch of a movie--the kind you get from an enthusiastic older relative at a spare-no-expense wedding. Toula (Vardalos) is a frumpy 30-year-old waitress at her Greek parents' Chicago restaurant. They expect her to marry a Greek boy, have babies, and feed everyone. Then she meets handsome Ian Miller (Corbett), a non-Greek vegetarian schoolteacher who really, really likes her. Enough to want to marry her--if Toula's family can ever recover from the shock of her marrying outside their heritage. Every cliche imaginable is trotted out and you won't care as you'll laugh and groan at the too-recognizable family behavior (no matter what your ethnicity). Based on Vardalos' stage monologue.
Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly; 3/27/2009; 820+ words...film with a multicultural theme that will also interest mainstream audiences, similar to LOST IN TRANSLATION, MYBIGFATGREEKWEDDING or THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG." Merge will be launched at a kick-off event in New York City on March 6th...
Newspaper article from: Screen Digest; 10/1/2007; 1325+ words...per cent). The individual movie with the highest proportion of revenues attained solely from US cinemas was MyBigFatGreekWedding released by IFC Films domestically in 2002 with a 65 per cent share. On analysis of the world top 10s since 2001...
Newspaper article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television; 1/1/2006; 1016+ words...Cybill, CBS, 1997. "It's My Nana and I'll Cry If I Want To...Rizzos," Pearl, CBS, 1997. "The Wedding," George & Leo, CBS, 1997...NBC, 2002. "The House Gift," MyBigFatGreek Life, CBS, 2003. Happy Family...