My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 123movies

Watch: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 133,456
	76% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1841 Popularity: 12.547 | TMDB

Reviews:

A simple story about a girl in love.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very simple, funny romance story that would probably be most appreciated by female audiences.

Nia Vardalos (the film’s writer and star) is Toula Portokalos, a quiet young woman from a zany Greek family. As she explains in the great flashback introduction, all her life she has been brought up to be strictly Greek. But, the same upbringing also contains some traditional absuridites that she can’t understand, although her parent’s wish that she would adhere to. Toula’s upbringing has only allowed her to look forward to one thing at this point in her life: get married to a nice Greek boy and have lots of babies.

This is not something Toula wants to here, and eventually, she gains the courage to break out of her introverted shield and gradually change herself into a bold, lovely woman. She stops working at her family’s resturaunts and starts taking computer classes at the local college, which lead her not only to a better appreciation for herself, but leads to a job at her aunt’s travel agency where she meets Ian Miller (Jon Corbet), and that is where our story begins.

Toula and Ian are in love, really very much so. But, this troubles Toula’s mother and father, with her father (Michael Constantine) being more strict in traditional Greek upbringing than her mother (Lanie Kazan), when Ian proposes to Toula. For Toula’s father, it is bad enough that she quit the family business to go to school and everything. But it is simply out of the question for him that she marry a non-Greek. So, Toula is torn between the two. This is a movie very much in the spirit of films like Bend it Like Beckham and somewhat like the Joy Luck Club in addressing roles of tradition in future generations of immigrants and the possibility and reason for preservation of such traditions.

Of course the film is a very simple movie, a simple love story, but a funny one nonetheless. We see the contrast between Toula’s Greek upbringing, and Ian’s very quiet, conservative family. Everyone was fantastic in this film, especially Lainie Kazan as Toula’s mom, Michael Constantine as her father, and the wonderfully hilarious Andrea Martin as Toula’s Aunt Voula.

I don’t know the reason for so many negative reviews for this movie. I would say it was probably the best movie I saw in 2002, and one that I have seen many times since just because it a lovely little (and funny) story about a girl in love.

Love is here to stay… so is her family.
One of the best comedies I already watched,’My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ shows us a little bit of the Greek tradition in the north American environment. Toula Portokalos,daughter of two Greek immigrants,always had problems with popularity and friends,since she is so different from the regular blonde American girls. Besides, her traditional Greek family don’t let her have many opportunities besides the ones that are about the Greek tradition. One day,Toula sees in her family’s restaurant the beautiful and charming teacher Ian Miller, who she become very attracted to. Decided to change the rules of the traditional things in her house, she starts going to the university and working,until she finally meets Ian. They fall in love with each other, but the problem now, is Toula’s family,specially her parents, to accept a non-Greek as son-in-law.

**spoiler** PS: I agree with Toula in the end, when she says that thanks for the fact she is a different girl , she could make Ian pay attention to her. It’s so much better to be different and unique, than similar to everybody else.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 5000000
Revenue 368744044
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Joel Zwick
Writer Nia Vardalos
Actors Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine
Country Canada, United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 20 wins & 29 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada (dailies)
Film Length (5 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383, Fuji F-CP 3519)