2002 film by Joel Zwick From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 American-Canadian romantic comedy movie directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos. The movie stars Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Gia Carides, Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin and Joey Fatone.
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Directed by | Joel Zwick |
Written by | Nia Vardalos |
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Cinematography | Jeffrey Jur |
Edited by | Mia Goldman |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $5 million[1] |
Box office | $368.7 million[1] |
A 30-year old middle-class Greek American woman, who still lives with her family in Chicago, falls in love with an upper middle-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant man, and struggles to get her family and especially her father, who wants her to marry a Greek, to accept him, while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding was shot in Toronto, Canada, which stands in for Chicago in the movie. The movie spawned a movie franchise, which inspired the 2003 sitcom My Big Fat Greek Life and the 2016 sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. A third movie, titled My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, was released in cinemas on September 8, 2023.[4]
My Big Fat Greek Wedding was very successful at the box office; its budget was estimated at $5 million and the box office was $368.7 million.[1] The reviews of the movie by the movie critics and the audience were positive.
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