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Actors: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan, Louis Mandylor
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
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A Greek woman wants her family to accept the man she's about to marry, but the man is of another nationality and religion. There are many struggles and differences between the two families, and even the two lovers' friends have their own self-doubts.
--Teddy, Resident Scholar
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Toula is Greek through and through and her family wouldn't have it any other way. Even though Toula is over 30 years old, her parents still control her life. So when she starts taking college courses and dating a (non-Greek) man, they are shocked and disappointed. Through humor and love, she manages to convince them that Ian is a good guy, and it's a happy ending.
--Lauren Socha, Resident Scholar
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Toula Portokalos (Vardalos) is a frumpy Greek American girl, considered an old maid at 30 by her family and friends, who works at her father's restaurant in Chicago. (Except for a couple of location shots, Toronto stands in for the Windy City.) While everybody's trying to get her hitched to a nice Greek man, she falls in love with quiet WASP schoolteacher Ian (Corbett, best known as Chris, the radio announcer on TV's "Northern Exposure"). She also schemes to land a job in her aunt's travel agency and get some college, all of which causes her to bloom and makes her hearty but tradition-minded Dad very uneasy. This charming, delightful, and hilarious 2001 film began life as a one-woman play (star Vardalos also wrote it), which was seen by Tom Hanks and his Greek American wife Rita Wilson, and the two agreed to produce it as a film.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Kind of comedy
- romantic comedy
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- Greek
Woman/class/friends story?
- immigrant story
Lover is...
- of a different social class
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Greek
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Greek
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Boston
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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