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My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Nick Portokalos: Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

Storyline

Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself.Written by Jon Reeves   

Taglines:

 Love is here to stay... so is her family.

Genres:

 Comedy | Romance


28 March 2005 | by Henry Fields (kikecam@teleline.es) (Spain) – See all my reviews
*Nice romantic-comedy about a Greek-American girl which has to fight against her family's strict traditions in order to marry a non-Greek boy. I think that, for the Greek people, this movie must be full of topics and stereotypes, but for the ones who don't know about Greek ways of life is pretty funny. There are all kind of weird characters (the grandma!!!), and the starring actress makes an outstanding job showing us the metamorphosis of that timid girl to a liberated one. Nice dialogs, nice rhythm... Just a nice entertainment for a Saturday afternoon.

*My Rate 6/10

Note: I love this movie, its romantic, comedy yet at the end of the day they stay together and accept their differences. Highly recommend! 











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Couples Retreat (2009)

I love this movie, comedy but you gonna learn a lot how to handle and understand your partner. Specially men, you better watch it!..:

Couples Retreat Poster

A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.


When in Rome (2010)

    I'm watching this .romantic movie,funny, crazy,weird, yet somehow its true ...laughing It's kinda cute , well it's absolutely for a woman weirdo wishes to have a perfect partner, a lover & getting frustrated not to find that guy! tonguelaughing How I wish "love" would be a simple magic just like this movie!... and yeah, it only happened mostly on Movies..happy and yet we still believe and hoping to find the "right one"...that's the real magic of "love"..winking
I love what Beth's Dad told her : - You cannot learn from my mistakes, you have to go out there and make your own;  Now you could get your heart broken or you could have the greatest love affair theworld has ever known, but you're not going to know unless you try... to make your own..
(Beth): How would you know you're not gonna get hurt?
(Beth's Dad): Passion is taking a risk!

            Beth is a hard working career woman whose last relationship says that she puts her work above him so he left her. When he tells her he found another career woman and is willing to stick it out with her and is engaged to her. Beth feels that there is no one for her. And when she goes to Rome to attend her sister's impromptu wedding and after meeting the best man, Nick she's attracted to him but after seeing him with another woman, she gets drunk and goes into the famed Fountain of Love and takes some coins thrown by people looking for love. When she goes back to New York four men start coming onto her. And Nick keeps calling her asking her out. She later learns that what she did--is a no no. It seems legend says that if you take a coins out of the fountain the person who threw it will fall in love with who took the coin. So she has to find a way to break the curse. And she wonders if Nick whom she likes is with her cause he wants to or is he under the spell.
Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com











Directed by
Mark Steven Johnson
Writing credits
(WGA)
David Diamond(written by) &
David Weissman(written by)
Cast (in credits order)