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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

 -  Comedy | Romance  -  2 August 2002 (USA)
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A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

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Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>

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Love is here to stay... so is her family.

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Comedy | Romance

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Rated PG for sensuality and language | See all certifications »

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2 August 2002 (USA)  »

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Mariage à la grecque  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$273,623 (Japan) (18 July 2003)

Gross:

$1,680,732 (Japan) (8 August 2003)
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In the fall of 2002 the film surpassed Dances with Wolves as the highest grossing movie never to have hit number one at the weekend box office. By the weekend of October 4-6, it surpassed The Blair Witch Project as the highest-grossing independent film of all time, until March 2004, when it was surpassed by The Passion of the Christ. Theatres continued to run the film after its initial video release. See more »

Goofs

During Ian and Toula's first date, in the restaurant, there is a medium shot over Toula's left shoulder, and there is no coffee cup on the table. In the next shot, a coffee cup appears on the table near Toula's left arm. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Gus Portokalos: [to Toula] You better get married soon. You're starting to look... old!
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Crazy Credits

Opening credits: All E's are replaced by the Greek letter Sigma. See more »

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Referenced in Veronica Mars: My Big Fat Greek Rush Week (2006) See more »

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"Secret Garden"
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Written by Ev
Published by Zaga Music
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It's my life!!!! Hilarious, but so true!!!!!
23 July 2004 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

My Fiancé is Greek and I am not. This move hit the nail on the head! The whole time I was watching this movie I was thinking this is my life Oh my God this is my life. I think people who gave this move bad reviews just didn't get it, because, they are not around or live inside the world of a Greek family. There are so many similarities to my Fiancés family it's almost creepy. For a crasher course to our wedding I told my whole family to watch this movie before they came. After the wedding was all said and done I had so many people from my side of the family came up to me and tell me your RIGHT! It was just like my Big Fat Greek Wedding!!! Especially since we had almost 700 people at our wedding and all we did all night long is dance in circles!!! It was a lot of fun!

This was the best movie in a long time and no one knows how true this movie really is until they live through it.

Sincerely, AJH


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