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Article: At the Movies: 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'
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- April 19, 2002
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"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a big, fat romantic comedy full of obvious
jokes and over-the-top characters with loud reactions. And yet it
has enough laughs and is so lighthearted, it's hard not to be charmed.
Former Second City comedy troupe member Nia Vardalos, who wrote the
script based on her one-woman show, stars as frumpy Toula Portakalos.
Toula is considered a freak of nature in the Chicago Greek community
because she's still single at 30. And as she says in her sometimes
stilted voiceovers, "Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things:
Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day
we die."
One ...