My Big Fat Greek Life: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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- Season: n/a
- Episode: 1
- First Aired: 4/19/2002
Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula. Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba's, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus and Maria, and smells like garlic bread. Vowing that she'd rather stab herself in the eye with a red-hot poker than work in the restaurant for the rest of her life, Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not.
After taking a job at her aunt's travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller, a high school teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn't sure which will be more upsetting to her old-fashioned father, that Ian is a Xeno (foreigner) or that he's a vegetarian.
But none of it matters once he asks her to marry him. Toula knows that if he can pass muster with her crazy relatives, and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church their big fat Greek wedding will be a piece of cake. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Nia Vardalos
- Director:
- Joel ZwickNorm Waitt
- Stars:
- Jayne Eastwood (Mrs. White)
- Gia Carides (Nikki Portokalos)
- Lainie Kazan (Maria Portokalos)
- Louis Mandylor (Nicolas "Nick" Portokalos)
- Michael Constantine (Gus Portokalos)
- Steven Eckholdt (Thomas Miller)
- Andrea Martin (Aunt Voula)
- Nia Vardalos (Nia Portokalos)
- Guest Star:
- John Tsifliklis (Wedding Singer)
- Bruce Gray (Rodney Miller)
- Frank Falcone (Suitor #1)
- Eugene Martel (Suitor #2)
- Joe Persechini (Suitor #3)
- Peter Xynnis (Suitor #4)
- Melissa Todd (Car Pool Friend #2)
- Petra Wildgoose (Car Pool Friend #1)
- Christina Eleusiniotis (Toula (Age 6))
- Anthony Kandiotis (Priest)
- Nick Kutsukos (Bouzouki Player)
- Peter Tharos (Yianni)
- Scott Khouri (Waiter)
- Constantine Vardalos (Greek Chanter #2)
- Chris Savides (Greek Chanter #1)
- Charlene Bitzas (Aunt Nota)
- Gale Garnett (Aunt Lexie (as Gale Zoe Garnett))
- Kathryn Haggis (Cousin Marianthi)
- Maria Vacratsis (Aunt Freida)
- Chrissy Paraskevopoulos (Cousin Jennie)
- Marita Zouravlioff (Toula (Age 12))
- Kaylee Vieira (Schoolgirl)
- Sarah Osman (Athena (Age 15))
- Arielle Sugarman (Paris)
- Fiona Reid (Harriet Miller)
- Gerry Mendicino (Uncle Taki)
- Joey Fatone (Cousin Angelo)
- Jayne Eastwood (Mrs. White)
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- The film was still running in several theaters after its initial video release. edit »
- In the fall of 2002, it surpassed 'Dances with Wolves' as the highest grossing movie never to have hit number one at the box office. edit »
- Nia Vardalos' real life husband, Ian Gomez, plays Ian's best friend, Mike. edit »
- Aunt Voula: You family now, so I tell you a story. All my life ... I have this lump on the back of my neck. When I reach the menopause, the lump get bigger. I go to the doctor, and he performs a ... bo-bo-bobopsy. And inside the lump, he finds teeth, and a spinal column. The lump ... it was my twin.
(Ian's parents are horrified. Voula grabs a drink and toasts.)
Aunt Voula: Ohpah!! edit » - Harriet: How are we supposed to know what's going on?
Rodney: It's all Greek to me. edit » - Toula: When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blonde and delicate, and I was a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns. edit »
- Nick: I've never seen my sister this happy, Ian. If you hurt her, I'll kill you and make it look like an accident. edit »
- Maria: What's wrong with Toula going to school downtown?
Gus: There are drugs downtown.
Maria: (angry) Are you saying Toula will get involved in drugs?!
Gus: No. Somebody will say to her "Take this bag to the bus depot", and she'll do it! edit »
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