My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe 95m
Director: Joel Zwick
Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan
Synopsis:
A Greek family runs a restaurant in Chicago and despairs of seeing ugly duckling Toula marry a good Greek and have babies... Then one day she meets a handsome teacher of WASP stock and must somehow make him acceptable to her father.
Review:
Formulaic (another wedding picture), dramatically thin comedy, which starts out all serious and then, after a perfunctory makeover of the heroine, has nowhere to go except portray the Hellenization of its leading man. Apparently based on Vardalos's standup routine; any Greeks would surely cringe at the stereotypes on display here. One or two glimpses of the project's more anarchic possibilities remain among the supporting characters.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe 95m
Director: Joel Zwick
Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan
Synopsis:
A Greek family runs a restaurant in Chicago and despairs of seeing ugly duckling Toula marry a good Greek and have babies... Then one day she meets a handsome teacher of WASP stock and must somehow make him acceptable to her father.
Review:
Formulaic (another wedding picture), dramatically thin comedy, which starts out all serious and then, after a perfunctory makeover of the heroine, has nowhere to go except portray the Hellenization of its leading man. Apparently based on Vardalos's standup routine; any Greeks would surely cringe at the stereotypes on display here. One or two glimpses of the project's more anarchic possibilities remain among the supporting characters.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe 95m
Director: Joel Zwick
Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan
Synopsis:
A Greek family runs a restaurant in Chicago and despairs of seeing ugly duckling Toula marry a good Greek and have babies... Then one day she meets a handsome teacher of WASP stock and must somehow make him acceptable to her father.
Review:
Formulaic (another wedding picture), dramatically thin comedy, which starts out all serious and then, after a perfunctory makeover of the heroine, has nowhere to go except portray the Hellenization of its leading man. Apparently based on Vardalos's standup routine; any Greeks would surely cringe at the stereotypes on display here. One or two glimpses of the project's more anarchic possibilities remain among the supporting characters.