Movie Review
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2002 7:25 PM
Welcome to the Movie Review for the week of Aug...
Welcome to the Movie Review for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 2. My Big Fat Greek Wedding started as a little independent film, co-produced by Tom Hanks’ wife, actress Rita Wilson. But more through word of mouth than a huge advertising campaign, it has grown into the sleeper hit of the year. You see, anyone with a family can relate to it. The premise is this: everyone in the Portokalos (port-uh-KAH-lohs) family worries about Toula (TWO-luh). Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba’s, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus and Maria. And worse, as an occupational hazard, Toula smells like garlic bread. Toula was raised in the traditional Greek fashion—she went to Greek school to learn the language, she was raised in the middle of a huge Greek family and she was told from the moment she could understand that she would grow up and marry a Greek man and raise lots of Greek children. After taking a job at her aunt’s travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller, a high school teacher who’s tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn’t sure which will be more upsetting to her old-fashioned father-- that Ian isn’t Greek or that he’s a vegetarian. But none of it matters once he asks her to marry him. And as anyone from an ethnic family knows, you don’t just marry one, you marry the whole family. Also, Toula knows if Ian can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church, then their big fat Greek wedding will be a piece of cake, five layers high with a plastic staircase and a fountain of champagne. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is at times hilarious and touching, but one thing’s for sure…you’ll love it! My Big Fat Greek Wedding stars Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script, along with John Corbett, Andrea Martin, Michael Constantine and Lainie Kazan, and it’s rated PG. And that’s the movie review for this week.
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