My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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. 

 Plot 
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.

Cast

 Nia Vardalos as Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos
 John Corbett as Ian Miller, an English teacher
 Lainie Kazan as Maria Portokalos, Toula's mother
 Michael Constantine as Costas "Gus" Portokalos, Toula's father
 Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula, Maria's sister
 Louis Mandylor as Nikos "Nick" Portokalos, Toula's younger brother
 Gerry Mendicino as Uncle Taki, Voula's husband
 Joey Fatone as Cousin Angelo, Voula's son.
 Gia Carides as Cousin Nikki, Voula's daughter
 Bess Meisler as Yiayia, Toula's grandmother, who suffers from PTSD
 Stavroula Logothettis as Athena Portokalos, Toula and Nick's older sister
 Ian Gomez as Mike, Ian's best friend
 Bruce Gray as Rodney Miller, Ian's father
 Fiona Reid as Harriet Miller, Ian's mother
 Jayne Eastwood as Mrs. White, a non-Greek neighbor
 Kathryn Haggis as Cousin Marianthi
 Peter Tharos as Yianni, Athena's husband
 Maria Vacratsis as Theia Freida

 Production 
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.

Reception
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. The reviews of the movie by the movie critics and the audience were positive.

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Category:2002 romantic comedy movies
Category:2000s English-language movies
Category:American independent movies
Category:American romantic comedy movies
Category:Canadian romantic comedy movies
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Category:Movies set in Chicago
Category:Movies based on plays