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Big Fat Greek Wedding
''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 Americans, Greek American woman who falls in love with 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 domestically 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 with that distinction for 14 years until the animated film ''Sing (2016 American film), Sing'' grossed $268 million in 2016. The film spawned My Big Fat Greek Wedding (franchise), a franchise, which inspired the short-lived 2003 CBS TV series ''My Big Fat Greek Life'' and a film sequel titled ''My Big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Zwick
Joel Zwick (born January 11, 1942) is an American film director, television director, and theater director.Mann, Iris (June 1, 2016)"'Hillary and Monica': An Unlikely Meeting" '' Jewish Journal''. He worked on the television series '' Perfect Strangers'', ''Full House'', and ''Family Matters'', and directed the films ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'', ''Second Sight'', and ''Fat Albert''. Biography Zwick was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family. His father was a cantor from an Orthodox background, and Zwick had his bar mitzvah at an Orthodox synagogue. He graduated from James Madison High School in 1958. Zwick then went to Brooklyn College ('62), where he taught in the School of Film. Zwick has directed 21 television pilots, all of which have continued on to successful runs as weekly series. He is married to Dr. Candice Zwick, a psychologist. They have three daughters, Hillary, Jodi and Lara, and one son, Jamie. Despite a popular misconception, he is not related to fello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
