My Big Fat Greek Wedding ★★½ 2002 (PG) 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. 95m/C VHS, DVD. US Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Gia Carides, Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin, Joey Fatone, Bruce Gray, Fiona Reid, Bess Meisler, Ian Gomez;
Director:
Joel Zwick;
Writer:
Nia Vardalos;
Writer:
Jeffrey Jur;
Cameo:
Chris Wilson, Alexander Janko. Ind. Spirit '03: Debut Perf. (Vardalos).
