Author: Nia Vardalos

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 11-02-2003

Details: Amazon.ca Tired of not finding a role to her measure in the cinema, the young theater actress of Greek origin Nia Vardalos quite simply decided to write a solo show, which was noticed and then brought to the big screen. Drawing inspiration from what she certainly knows best – her family – she delivers in My Big Fat Greek Wedding a pretty tasty comedy, surprise success at the box office in 2002. Toula Portokalos, in her thirties and single, is a waitress in her parents' Greek restaurant. Her life seems disastrous to her until the day she decides to take charge of herself and enroll in computer courses. She will then meet Ian Miller, a young yuppie from a good family who will soon ask her for her hand. The problem is that he is not Greek! Comparing the traditions of the warm and exuberant Portokalos family to those of the bourgeois and uptight Miller family, My Big Fat Greek Wedding works primarily through dynamic, funny and hard-hitting dialogue. Greek ways and customs are dissected with the finesse of a steamroller for comic effect... but the absence of stars in the cast and the falling prejudices give this unpretentious, charming and romantic comedy, a refreshing tone that you don't encounter every day. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 085396190818

EAN: 0085396190818

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: New