My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Joel Zwick
Produced by	Gary Goetzman Tom Hanks Rita Wilson
Written by	Nia Vardalos
Starring	Nia Vardalos John Corbett Lainie Kazan Michael Constantine Andrea Martin Joey Fatone
Music by	Alexander Janko Chris Wilson
Cinematography	Jeffrey Jur
Edited by	Mia Goldman
Production company	Gold Circle Films HBO Films MPH Entertainment Playtone
Distributed by	IFC Films
Release date	April 19, 2002 (2002-04-19) (United States) August 16, 2002 (2002-08-16) (Canada)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million
Box office	$368.7 million

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos, who also stars in the film as 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. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and, at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

A sleeper hit, the film became the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time, and grossed $241.4 million in North America, despite never reaching number one at the box office during its release. It was the highest-grossing film to accomplish this feat until the animated film Sing grossed $268 million in 2016.

The film inspired the short-lived 2003 TV series My Big Fat Greek Life and a film sequel titled My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, which was released on March 25, 2016.

30-year-old Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) feels that she is the only woman in her family who has "failed" at being a typical Greek girl. Her family expects her to be more like her 33-year-old sister Athena (Stavroula Logothettis) and marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies, and "feed everyone until the day she dies." Instead, Toula is stuck working in the family restaurant in Chicago, "Dancing Zorba's." Frumpy and cynical, she fears that she is doomed to be stuck with her life. One day while at the restaurant, Toula briefly becomes enamored with and embarrasses herself in front of Ian Miller (John Corbett), a handsome school teacher.