My Big Fat Greek Wedding - My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Comedy, Romance

Nia Vardalos	Toula
John Corbett	Ian Miller
Michael Constantine	Gus
Lainie Kazan	Maria
Andrea Martin	Aunt Voula
Joey Fatone	Angelo
Gia Carides	Nikki
Louis Mandylor	Nick
Bess Meisler	Yia Yia
Fiona Reid	Hayley Miller
Christina Eleusiniotis	Toula at 6
Kaylee Vieira	Schoolgirl
John Kalangis	Greek Teacher
Marita Zouravlioff	Toula at 12
Sarah Osman	Athena at 15
Petra Wildgoose	Car Pool Friend
Melissa Todd	Car Pool Friend
Liania Kazan

Director	Joel Zwick; Jeol Zwick
Writer	Nia Vardalos

One woman's rocky road to the altar gets played for laughs in this comedy, adapted from the one-woman off-Broadway show written by and starring Nia Vardalos . Toula ( Vardalos ) is a Greek-American woman who is in her early thirties and single, with no immediate prospects of changing that status any time soon. This bothers Toula a bit, but not half as much as it distresses her mother ( Lainie Kazan ) and father ( Michael Constantine ), who want to send her to Greece in hopes of finding a husband in the old country. Toula isn't interested in leaving the country to find a man, but since she works in the family business -- a Greek restaurant in Chicago called Dancing Zorba's -- she has to hear about it whether she likes it or not. One day, after seeing a handsome stranger in the restaurant and not having the courage to talk to him, Toula decides she needs a bit of self-improvement. Despite her dad's misgivings, Toula signs up for a night-school class studying computers, trades in her glasses for contact lenses, gets a different job at a travel agency, and spruces herself up with a new look and a new attitude. To her very pleasant surprise, she once again encounters the handsome stranger, who soon asks her out on a date. Schoolteacher Ian Miller ( John Corbett ) is seemingly perfect -- he's tall, handsome, smart, good-natured, and soon in love with Toula -- except for two little things: he's not Greek, and he's a vegetarian, both of which horrify Toula's family. When Ian pops the question (and Toula says yes), the bride-to-be has to negotiate a reasonably peaceful meeting between Ian's upper-class parents and her own working-class extended family. There's also the matter of the wedding, which Toula's mother is planning around the notion that quantity IS quality. My Big Fat Greek Wedding also features Ian Gomez ( Vardalos ' real-life husband), Louis Mandylor , Andrea Martin , and Joey Fatone (from the pop group *NSYNC ). Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson helped produce the film through the auspices of their production company, Playtone. -- Mark Deming