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	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
		Continuity: When Toula is looking at the invitations, she hands the cover of the box to her father, but then she is shown holding it.
		I think that, for the Greek people, this movie must be full of topics and stereotypes, but for the ones who don't know about Greek ways of life is pretty funny.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0259446 (393 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Perhaps My Big Fat Greek Wedding is not such a surprise hit after all: the film was part-produced by A list Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, so his endorsement might have made it more noticeable to distributors.
		So while the consequences of the wedding preparations are supposedly hilarious ('oohs', 'aahs' and guffaws from the audience all round), the story is excruciatingly reassuring and the plotline simple – but this seems only to have added to the film's success.
		And, depending on the way you look at it, sticking the wedding at the end of the film is either a cheat so you feel compelled to sit and watch it through to the big day, or a cosy climax to give an already predictable film some kind of raison d'être.
	www.highangle.co.uk /reviews/mybigfatgreekwedding.html (755 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding tells the story of Toula Portokalos (played by Nia Vardalos, who wrote the semi-autobiographical screenplay), a frumpish 30-something who works in her family’s restaurant.
		She is the wallflower of the family, failing as the movie begins to have married a good Greek boy, have Greek babies, and then live the rest of her life feeding everyone.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a terrific little movie that will leave you filled with happiness and serves as a touching reminder of the importance of family and roots.
	home.comcast.net /~richhand2/rossireviews/MY-BIG-FAT-GREEK-WEDDING-Review.html (1038 words)

	Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding starts out as a modern day Cinderella story and culminates with the traditional end to most fairy tale romances - the wedding, with all of its associated complexities and mishaps.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more in the nature of an embrace and celebration of Greek culture than it is a lampoon.
		Although My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a breakthrough for director Joel Zwick (who has a ton of TV credits to his name, but nothing of note on the big screen) and writer Vardalos, its success is perhaps not as surprising as some pundits would lead the movie-going public to believe.
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	Movie Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is an independent film that was released earlier this year to a limited number of theatres.
		Having reached the age of 30 with no husband - Greek or otherwise - in sight, Gus is preparing to take desperate measures when Toula begins to take some measure of control in her life for herself.
		Not being Greek, I can't speak for the authenticity of many of the traditions, but because the writer, star, and one of the producers are Greek (as are many cast members, at the insistence of Vardalos), I'm going to assume the dances and boisterous family get-togethers are largely realistic.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2002/my-big-fat-greek-wedding.html (643 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film written by Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick.
		It tells the love story between an American woman of Greek descent (Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script) and a non-Greek American (played by John Corbett).
		The movie inspired the brief 2003 TV series My Big Fat Greek Life, with most of the major characters played by the same actors, with the exception of Steven Eckholdt replacing John Corbett as the husband.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/My_Big_Fat_Greek_Wedding (516 words)

	KINNOPIO - My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding thus has a number of enviable sources to tap for its comedy, many of which develop successfully into running jokes.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding, helmed by veteran television director Joel Zwick, gets both sides across but takes its shots lightly, and subsequently both men and women in the audience are likely to have a fun time watching the movie.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is one of the rare romantic comedies that are enjoyable for both men and women.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2002/mybigfat.htm (609 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Greek Wedding is now one of the most profitable films in history and a TV series (My Big Fat Greek Life) is going to be appearing on our television sets in the near future.
		To prove my point: one of my close friends is Greek, I work with three Greek people, I live 3 doors down from a lovely Greek family, and as a child, learnt every Greek swear word you could think of.
		But even knowing this Greek culture as I do, this film gave me an eye witness account of their world and to experience the wonderfully amusing people that they are, with their richness and diversity.
	www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=352 (993 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding rarely travels out of the well-worn rut carved for it 80 years ago: on the one hand, your immigrant culture drives you crazy, but on the bright side, you can inflict it on your kids.
		Her big scene, for all of its windup, is a minute long.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG), directed by Joel Zwick, written by Nia Vardalos, photographed by Jeff Jur and starring Vardalos, Andrea Martin and Lanie Kazan, plays at the Cinema Century 16 and 24 in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.25.02/greekwedding-0217.html (563 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is one of those movies that exemplifies what Insepctor Clouseau meant by the line, "It's all a part of life's rich pageant." Here are the laughter and irritations, the tears and, yes, the love of noisy, ethnic family life.
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" essentially tells us that Greeks are no different from Jews or Italians, just as nosy and pushy about their children's love lives, just as maddening when they intend to be well-meaning.
		Of course, he's not Greek, and the interaction of his boisterous in-laws-to-be and his pinched WASP parents are meant to be a chief source of hilarity.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/06/28/greek_wedding (1056 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Father Gus doubles his efforts in parading not-so-eligible Greek bachelors before her, but Toula falls for the non-Greek Ian Miller (John Corbett), who doubles the family's shock by announcing he's also a vegetarian.
		In addition to such confessional moments, there are some nice details about the Greek community and customs, and it's fun having Vardalos share behind-the-scenes filming "secrets" and point out her family or friends — and, in one scene, Tom Hanks in the background, caught by accident as he was watching the filming.
		— My Big Fat Greek Wedding may not be as richly textured or complex as Monsoon Wedding or The Best Man, nor does it have quite the depth of characters to be found in Father of the Bride or Betsy's Wedding.
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	DVD Review - My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Everyone marries young and the women bear children, many children, many Greek children, that is. Stuck in the daily rut of working at the family restaurant, Toula wants to break out and decides to go to college.
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a fresh breeze in the movie world, and it is undoubtedly the reason for its success.
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a wonderful movie that lets you enjoy it for what it is. It is entirely unpretentious and makes for some fascinating 90-minute of viewing.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/my_big_fat_greek_wedding.shtml (732 words)

	Amazon.ca: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Widescreen/Full Screen) [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is the Greek-American take on love, work, food, drink, school, language, religion, fashion and dating among other things.
		My Greek friends are a lot louder and larger than life that this cast.
		Maybe because of this, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" it didn't really have a big impact on me. I'd seen all these cultural elements before, so it wasn't a novelty, and since I'm not a Greek immigrant myself (or a child of), it was harder to relate to.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006FMUW (801 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding was hard to get into, because of the frenetic early scenes - some of us just can't take gratuitous noise and flailing and lack of adherence to the ultimate mood of the film.
		Despite father Gus, who digs in his heels, a wedding proceeds, mother Maria having explained to the upset Toula that "Greek men are the head of the family, but the women are the neck and turn the head wherever they want."
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding turned out to be the surprise box office hit of the summer of 2002.
	home.comcast.net /~maclark66/GreekWedding.htm (329 words)

	DVD.net : My Big Fat Greek Wedding - DVD Review
		It also has at its big fat heart a story which speaks to so many, with people of all races and religions out there knowing the obstacles they can still face today when getting involved with somebody “not of their kind”.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding manages to steer clear of such pitfalls effortlessly, with a simple happy-tears inspiring tale which most everybody can find something within to identify with, and fine performances from everybody who ambles onto the screen — yes, even that guy from *Nsync.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is simply such a gem of a film that it deserves a spot on the shelves of anybody with even the merest skerrick of romance in them.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2439 (1370 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There's not a lot of voice-over narration in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." But what little there is convinces you that the original stage monologue by Nia Vardalos would have been a hoot to hear.
		You don't have to be Greek to chuckle at the affectionate jabs Vardalos aims at her loving, smothering family.
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is narrated by Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), who, like all Greek women, she says, was put upon this earth for three purposes: to marry a Greek man, to have Greek children, and to feed everyone until the day she dies.
	www.greeknews.us /myfatgreekwedding.htm (3851 words)

	MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
		The highest grossing independent film of all time, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," inaugurates the newest component of the Plumas County Arts Commission and Feather River Colleges' Cultural Collaboration.
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a Romantic Comedy about a young Greek woman who falls in love with a non-Greek man, and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity."
		Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun Times says of Greek Wedding; "The movie is warm-hearted in the way a movie can be when it knows its people inside out.
	www.plumasarts.com /prelease/greek.html (293 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding falls squarely into the former category, with writer Nia Vardalos (Meet Prince Charming) adapting her play to the big screen.
		The only problem is that she comes from a traditionally Greek family, and Ian Miller (John Corbett, Serendipity, Dinner Rush) is not Greek.
		Some of the quirks are not necessarily confined to the Greek culture, or even to immigrant culture.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/my_big_fat_greek_wedding.html (524 words)

	USCCB Reviews - My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A first-generation Greek woman finds that accepting and loving her family, warts and all, has its own rewards in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (Lions Gate).
		Mousy, smelling of garlic from her father Gus' (Michael Constantine) Greek diner, where she works, and unmarried, Toula is a worry to the entire family (which includes 27 first cousins).
		Much of the comedy is derived from the clash of cultures between Toula's fiercely proud Greek family and Ian, an American, whose family doesn't quite understand why the Portokalos are roasting a pig in their front lawn.
	www.usccb.org /movies/m/mybigfatgreekwedding.htm (662 words)

	Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a slight but agreeable comedy about the courtship and wedding of a Greek-American woman by -- to the shock of her large, loud family -- a non-Greek.
		The script for "Greek Wedding" is based on an autobiographical one-woman show written and starring this Second City alumna.
		Thus begins an awkward romance away from prying family eyes, the eventual discovery of the affair, the to-ing and fro-ing over her engagement to a "foreigner" and finally the big fat Greek wedding of the title where, seemingly, everyone of Greek ancestry in the greater Chicago area gets invited.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hollywoodreporter/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1466730 (488 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Sweet Home Alabama, Brown Sugar, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the big picture, Brown Sugar is nothing we haven't seen before, but just because you've been to a dozen parties at your friends' houses doesn't mean you don't welcome another one.
		And this joyous, ardent celebration of romance and friendship and the meeting of the two is like hanging out with friends you adore, smart guys and gals who are funny and confident (except about romance, of course) and clever, who are always there for a hug or words of moral support.
		And we like Toula's big Greek family, even when her dad, Gus (Michael Constantine), is lamenting, in his old-world-sexist way, ever letting his daughter take college classes rather than work in the family restaurant -- she's 30 years old, for pete's sake -- because look where it led her: to a boy who isn't Greek.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2002/sweethomebrownsugar.shtml (1189 words)

	Amazon.com: My Big Fat Greek Wedding: DVD: Nia Vardalos,Michael Constantine,John Corbett,Christina Eleusiniotis,Kaylee ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
		MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING is cultural stereotyping run amuck, but pulls it off because the film never takes itself too seriously.
	www.amazon.com /My-Big-Fat-Greek-Wedding/dp/B00006FMUW (1418 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002): Reviews
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very slim movie that succeeds on its own modest terms without pretense or apology.
		Vardalos is of Greek ancestry, which makes stereotyping permissible: She can tease Greeks, just as Italians can safely mock Italians or Jews can poke fun at Jews.
		The wedding, which turns the very concept of ''Greek'' into the sort of hideous, pandering clichés that look rejected from bad Jewish and Italian sitcoms.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/mybigfatgreekwedding (1565 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is based on comedy writer Vardalos' one-woman show.
		Directed by Joel Zwick, the film is not the first to deal with big weddings and what happens when too many family members get involved.
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	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1111760 (657 words)

	USATODAY.com - Their big fat success story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding will surpass $225M by Jan 5, 2003
		Most observers agree that the low-budget My Big Fat Greek Wedding has triumphed because people fell in love with the timeless story, no-name star and unorthodox cast.
		His big inspiration was to make Wedding look like it was a major release from a major studio, not an art-house film from a group of small companies that moviegoers have never heard of (including production company Playtone, co-owned by Tom Hanks).
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/2002-08-27-big-fat-story_x.htm (867 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- Joel Zwick - DVD - Wide Screen
		This bothers Toula a bit, but not half as much as it distresses her mother (Lainie Kazan) and father (Michael Constantine), who want to send her to Greece in hopes of finding a husband in the old country.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding also features Ian Gomez (Vardalos' real-life husband), Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin, and Joey Fatone (from the pop group *NSYNC).
		Written by Vardalos, who clearly thought this was some sort of homage to her middle European heritage, the plot is excessively burdened with middle-European clichés that get overplayed, tapping into the bias that all Greeks are warm-hearted simpletons and all outsiders are clearly cold fish.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=26359199325&userid=6XSC1LS1AA (1176 words)

	Human Events: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		SUMMARY: My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a big fat independent movie that's a celebration of one woman's ethnic heritage.
		Although Toula and Ian are not super-- religious, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a warm-hearted, often amusing celebration of Toula's family heritage, including its Greek Orthodox Christian background.
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding also contains, however, some light foul language, a short sequence of implied premarital sex and lively scenes of alcohol use.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200205/ai_n9113889 (307 words)

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