My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Release: April 19, 2002

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos, directed by Joel Zwick and produced by Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson. It is based on Vardalos' one woman show and at the 76th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Toula Portokalos is a single, voluptuous thirty-year-old Greek woman living with her parents and brother in a close-knit Chicago Greek community and working in the family's Greek restaurant. They even have a Greek statue in their front lawn and proudly painted the Greek flag on their garage door. Deciding to invigorate her life, she breaks out on her own to go to college and start working at a travel agency. She also gets a makeover, taming her wild hair and getting contacts. In this new lifestyle she meets the handsome, charming but non-Greek Ian Miller. They fall for each other and decide to get married. Her dad does not approve; how could she possibly marry a non-Greek? Nevertheless, things get sorted out and a huge and very Greek wedding is planned...

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Title	Date Added	Release Date
My Big Fat Greek Wedding	05/16/2012	(2002)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2	10/07/2020	(2016)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3	05/11/2023	(2023)
My Big Fat Independent Movie	06/07/2014	(2005)

Trailers

Theatrical trailer.

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Quotes

Gus Portokalos: "[repeater; whenever anyone has an ailment] put some Windex."

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Aunt Voula: "Ian: I'm Aunt Voula - Let me touch your hair. / (3x) Oh." [Toula: (a)] "(b) (2x) Ok. / Why don't you come to my house and I cook for you?" [Toula: (b)] "(c) Why it a problem; Don't you tell him I'm the best cook in the family?" "[Toula: (c)]"

Toula Portokalos: "(a) Umm⋯ Aunt Voula." [Voula: (b)] "(b) That may be a problem." [Voula: (c)] "(c) Oh, I did."

Ian Miller: "Twice! [He and Toula laugh]"

Toula: "(a) Ian is a vegetarian - He doesn't eat meat." [Voula: (a)] "(b) No, he doesn't eat meat." "[Voula: (b)]"

Voula: "(a) He don't eat no meat?" [Toula: (b)] "(b) What do you mean he don't eat no meat? [the room goes silent] Oh. / (2x) That's ok. / I make lamb!"

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Gus: "Ladies, fresh baklava! (snaps picture when they turn around)"

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Vicki: "What do you mean you don't eat no meat? That's OK, I make lamb!"

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Toula: "(narrating) A couple more years went by, and Dad brought his mother over from Greece to live with us. Because we weren't weird enough."

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Harriet Miller: "(at the wedding)How are we supposed to know what's going on?"

Rodney Miller: "It's all Greek to me."

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Gus: "Now, gimme a word, any word, and I'll show you how the root of that word is Greek."

Young Athena: "Oh, not this again."

Gus: "Okay? How about arachnophobia? Arachna, that comes from the Greek word for spider, and phobia is a phobia, is mean fear. So, fear of spider, there you go."

Schoolgirl: "Okay, Mr. Portokalos. How about the word kimono?"

Young Athena: "Good one."

Gus: "Kimono, kimono, kimono. Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go!"

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Gus: "Hello. Welcome to the Portokalos family and welcome the-the Miller family. I-I was thinking last night, um, the night before my-my daughter was gonna marry, uh, I-an Miller, that, um, you know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word Milo, which is mean apple, there you go. As many of you know, our name Portokalos is come from the Greek word Portokali, which means orange. So, okay, here tonight we have, uh, apple and orange... we all different, but, in the e"

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Toula: "(narrating)My dad believed in two things: That Greeks should educate non-Greeks about being Greek and that any ailment from psoriasis to poison ivy could be cured with Windex."

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Aunt Voula: "Now, you are family. Okay. All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal column. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin."

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Gus: "Welcome to my home. Over here is my brother, Ted, and his wife, Melissa, and their children, Anita, Diane and Nick. Over here, my brother Tommy, his wife Angie, and their children, Anita, Diane and Nick. And here, my brother George, his wife Freda, and their children, Anita, Diane and Nick. Taki, Sophie, Kari, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, uh, Nikki, and I am Gus."

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Gus: "Toula, there's two kinds of people: Greeks and everybody else who wish they were Greeks."

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