My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 Canadian and American romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. The film is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos , a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper middle class "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" Ian Miller . At the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. A sleeper hit, the film grossed $241.4 million in North America, despite never reaching number one at the box office during its release . Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos is... going through an early midlife crisis. At thirty, she is the only woman in her family who has "failed". Her family expects her to "marry a Greek, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day [she] die[s]." Instead, Toula is stuck working in the family business, a restaurant. In contrast to her "perfect" sister, Athena , Toula is frumpy and cynical. She fears she's doomed to be stuck with her life as it is.
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| Release date: | February 22, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Joel Zwick |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Gary Goetzman |
| Editor: | Mia Goldman |
| Music by: | Alexander Janko, Chris Wilson |
| Cinematography: | Jeff Jur |
| Screenplay by: | Nia Vardalos |
| Estimated budget: | $5,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |