Article: `Greek Wedding' shows split between immigrants and homeland

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Dateline: ATHENS, Greece It's certainly big and fat: squashing big-budget competition at the box office and now gaining extra buzz as a possible Academy Award nominee. But is it really "Greek"?

To most fans of the smash movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" such a question would seem absurd. The film by comic-screenwriter Nia Vardalos practically drips ouzo.

Yet back in Vardalos' ancestral land, the movie carries another distinct _ but increasingly unfamiliar _ flavor: the world according to Greek Americans.

To many Greeks, the film has exposed the widening gulf between the sentimental musings of Greek Americans and the realities of modern Greece. ...

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