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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783122328
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783122322
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
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Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: 91993
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 2002
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Editorial Review:
Toula is 30. And unmarried. Which means as a nice Greek girl -- she's a failure. All her cousins did the right thing -- married Greek boys and made Greek babies. So everyone worries: what will become of Toula? Then one day she sees the ultimate unattainable guy and realizes the only way her life will get better is if he gets away from her big fat Greek family. Toula escapes from the family restaurant. She exchanges her seating hostess jacket for a college diploma convinces her aunt to give her a new job and trades in her coke-bottle glasses for contact lenses just in time for "him" to walk back into her life. Ian Miller is tall handsome but defnitely not Greek. Their courtship is an Olympian culture clash. Can Ian handle Toula her parents her aunts uncles cousins and several centuries of Greek heritage? Will Toula discover the love she's been missing right in the heart of her big fat 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.Running Time: 95 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359199325 Manufacturer No: 91993
It's not surprising that My Big Fat Greek Wedding grew more popular over the course of its theatrical release (whereas most blockbusters open big and then drop precipitously)--not only does it have believable situations and engaging characters, but these characters (particularly our romantic heroine, Toula, played by writer and performer Nia Vardalos) look like actual human beings instead of plastic movie stars. 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. The actors invest their wildly stereotypical portrayals with sincerity and compassion, giving the movie an honest warmth instead of Hollywood schmaltz. But My Big Fat Greek Wedding ultimately succeeds because of Vardalos; her intelligent, down-to-earth presence and charm carry the film. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Big Fat Overrated Piece of Fluff
I just don't understand it. Why was this, a film about a mousy 30-something Greek woman getting a Pygmalion makeover and finding the man of her dreams, then going through the cacophony of planning a wedding with her colossal nuclear family, such a critical and box-office masterstroke? Why was a script written by the film's star, lacking in plot and containing banal dialogue, hailed as one of the better comedies of 2002? Why does everyone think that this movie is so great?
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Rating: - Hard for me to watch but the wife and daughter love it.
Difficult to get past the premise of the male lead selling his soul to become "worthy" of the Greek female lead. But has some funny moments, if you refuse to ever take it seriously.
Rating:  - My Big Fat Greek Wedding
This movie takes every stereotypical assumption you ever had about Greek people, and multiplies it for this laugh out loud satire. Toula has been ruled by her dominating family her whole life, but when she starts seeing, and later gets engaged to Ian Miller, both are determined not to let anyone interfere. What a great romantic comedy, but since there is also a fair amount of drama, I may have classified it incorrectly. Both the acting and script were very well done.
Rating:  - Great Family entertainment...and I do mean FAMILY
First...Ignore the idiotic negative reviews about how simplistic and stereotypical this film is. Those elements are the pillars of its appeal. Although the family in question is Greek, you could easily insert Jewish, Italian, Hispanic, etc. I refused to see this movie when it first came out even though urged to do so by my parents. I thought it would be a melodramatic waste of time and money. I recently was "trapped" into seeing it on a cruise ship by my friends. Upon return home, I ordered ... Read More
Rating: - 442 Five Star Reviews -- and counting!
No! It's not Shakespeare! (By the way, do you know he was Greek?) But, it sure is one of the funniest, most heart-warming movies I've seen in years. If you are Greek, Italian, German, Irish or Anything, you will see something of your family in this film. More importantly, it will leave you with a feeling of hope for the world, because we all share these family relationships in one way or another.
Yet another reason My Big Fat Greek Wedding is one of the best feel-good movies around ... Read More
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