Second City veteran Nia Vardalos expanded her one-woman show about life as a not-so-traditional daughter in a very traditional Greek-American family into a feature-length film, and the result is a rare delight: A romantic comedy that's both deeply romantic and very funny. Vardalos plays Toula, the frumpy 30-year-old daughter of Gus Portokalos (Michael Constantine), the extremely proud, extremely stubborn owner of Chicago's Dancing Zorba's diner, and the somewhat more understanding Maria (Lainie Kazan). Toula works as a "seating hostess" at Zorba's and still lives in the house she grew up in, the house with the Greek statuary, the Greek flag emblazoned on the garage d...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG
Length:
95 mins