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My Big Fat Greek Wedding is an Academy Award nominated 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. It was the fifth highest grossing movie of 2002 in the USA, with USD$241,438,208, and the highest-grossing romantic comedy in history. It is also the highest-grossing film to never have been number 1 on the weekly North American box-office charts. In 2003, it was nominated for an Academy Award, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
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my big fat greek wedding movie Cast
Nia Vardalos as Fotoula Toula Portokalos
John Corbett as Ian Miller
Michael Constantine as Kostas Gus Portokalos
Lainie Kazan as Maria Portokalos
Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula
Stavroula Logothettis as Athena Portokalos
Louis Mandylor as Nick Portokalos
Gia Carides as Cousin Nikki
Joey Fatone as Cousin Angelo
Bruce Gray as Rodney Miller
Fiona Reid as Harriet Miller
Arielle Sugarman as Paris Miller
Jayne Eastwood as Mrs White
My big fat greek wedding movie Plot :
The movie is centered on Fotoula Toula Portokalos, a Greek-American woman Nia Vardalos, who also wrote the script, who falls in love with a WASP, Ian Miller played by John Corbett. The movie also examines the protagonist's relationship with her family, with their cultural heritage and value system, which is sometimes rocky but ends with mutual appreciation.
Toula is going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty, she is the only woman in her family who has failed in Greek terms, her family expects her to marry a Greek, have Greek babies and feed everyone. Because of her failure as a Greek woman, Toula is stuck running the family business, a restaurant, Dancing Zorba's. In contrast to her "perfect" sister, Athena Stavroula Logothettis, Toula is a frumpy, cynical character who can barely articulate her desires and merely wishes for happiness. Now thirty, she fears she's doomed to be stuck with her life as it is.

At the restaurant, she encounters Ian Miller - John Corbett, a school teacher. His presence reminds her of the nearby city college, which she's considered for some time, secretly looking at their catalogs. With mom Maria's - Lainie Kazan help, she talks her father Gus - Michael Constantine into letting her sign up for computer classes, which she says she can use to help improve the business. Now caring more about her appearance, she abandons her unflattering eyeglasses for contact lenses and begins to wear makeup and attractive dresses. A bulletin at the school announces a seminar for computer systems related to travel agencies. Toula's Aunt Voula runs such an agency, and Toula decides to change jobs to work for her aunt. With her aunt and mother, she engages in an intricate scheme to convince her father that it was "his" idea to allow her to work for the travel agency so he will allow Toula to leave the restaurant business.

Toula feels much better in her new job, especially when she notices Ian hanging around looking at her through the window. They finally introduce themselves and go out for dinner. Ian at first does not recognize that she is the once-frumpy waitress from Zorba's, but even when he does, he tells Toula he wishes to spend time with her.

The affair quickly becomes a passionate whirlwind courtship which Toula keeps secret from her family until some weeks later. Toula's cousin Nikki warns Toula that a nosy neighbor saw her kissing Ian and told the family. Gus throws a fit because Ian is "xenos", a foreigner. Ian politely asks permission to continue seeing her, but Gus stubbornly refuses. Toula and Ian still manage to visit his apartment, where their relationship becomes more intimate. Toula meets Ian's upper-middle class, WASP parents for the first time, who are as reserved as her family is demonstrative.

Ian proposes, she accepts, and Gus is ultimately forced to accept their relationship. Ian readily agrees to convert to the Greek Orthodox faith in order to be worthy of Toula, and is baptized in traditional fashion. iAt the family's Easter festival, Ian confesses he is a vegetarian — a brief crisis for the entire family ensues — and he has a lot of trouble pronouncing Greek words. He tries to say Khristos Anesti - Christ is risen, and it comes out Cheese straws are nasty. This becomes a popular running gag with Toula's younger brother Nick - Louis Mandylor. When Ian asks how to say "thank you" to Toula's mom Maria, Nick gives him the words "Oréa viziá," — "Nice boobs!". But Maria slaps Nick, not Ian, knowing full well who taught him.

As the year passes, the wedding planning hits snag after snag as Toula's relatives "helpfully" interfere. Toula is horrified to learn that her parents invited the entire family to a "quiet" dinner, and the Millers, unused to such cultural fervor, are woefully overwhelmed. They brought a Bundt cake, but Maria is bemused by the hole and puts a potted flower in the middle.

Meanwhile, Ian wants to invite the guests inside, and warily consults Nick. After confirming the words with cousin Angelo - Joey Fatone, Ian calls out "I have three testicles". Gus still doesn't see how the relationship can work out, but others in the family are encouraging; in a touching scene, Yiayia Gus' mother -Bess Meisler shows Toula some of her private treasures, including pictures of herself as a girl and her stefana , which she gives Toula to wear. Nick secretly comes to Toula to confide that her courage in changing her life has inspired him to do likewise, and he plans to attend the city college to study art.

The wedding day dawns with liveliness and hysteria. Toula is horrified to find she has a stress zit, but covers it with foundation. The traditional wedding itself is quiet, dignified, and goes without a hitch. Everyone goes to the reception, and the Millers, fortified with many glasses of ouzo, begin to enjoy the Greek partying lifestyle. Gus gives a speech, in which he analyzes the name "Miller" as having come from the Greek "milo", meaning "apple". He then declares that, since his own last name "Portokalos" means "orange", the two families are "...apples and oranges. We're different but, in the end, we're all fruit". During the final scene where many of the party goers engage in a group dance, Aunt Voula watches Ian dancing with Toula and declares with quiet passion, "...he Looks Greek!"

According to Greek tradition, Gus and Maria have bought a gift for the young couple: a house right next door to them. The film's epilogue shows the Millers' life a few years later; they have a daughter named Paris, who would rather attend Girl Scouts than Greek school, but Toula promises the child that she can marry anyone she chooses. info (c) wikipedia.org