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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Joel Zwick |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Family Interaction · Romantic Comedy · Weddings |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
012569587854 |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Side by Side Release Company: Warner Home Video (August 31, 2004) UPC: 012569587243 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Nia Vardalos |
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MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING: Toula Portakalos (Nia Vardalos) feels trapped in her large Greek family, where women are expected to do only three things: "marry Greek men, have Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day they die." Rebelling against this fate, Toula quits the family restaurant, goes to college, fixes her hair, and falls in love with Ian (John Corbett), a guy who is way-too-good-to-be-true, and not Greek. This horrifies Toula's Greek culture-crazed father (Michael Constantine) and sets off a major culture clash between her loud, eccentric family (whose activities include roasting whole lambs on the front-yard barbecue spit) and Ian's subdued, overcivilized Anglo-Saxon parents. <br> <br> THE IN-LAWS: In 1979, Alan Arkin and Peter Falk starred in the classic comedy THE IN-LAWS, in which Arkin played a timid dentist who gets involved in dangerous government intrigue--or with the ravings of a lunatic--when he meets Vincent Ricardo (Falk), the father of the man Arkin's daughter is going to marry... |
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