My Big Fat Greek Wedding

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3f1b8140.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="276" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> My Big Fat Greek Wedding</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="786" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 172 WIDTH="774"><div> Last week I promised myself if this movie was still playing this weekend, we would go and see it.   This movie is the longest running movie currently in Medicine Hat so I thought it must be good - and it was.  The story is not deep, in fact it is fairly straight forward.  But what it does well is let us identify with the characters.   And so this is a character movie, and not your typical Hollywood beauties, but rather real people.    It is about relationships and giving to them.  It is a contrast to today's theme "what's in it for me", but while that may satisfy in the short term, I believe it leads to ultimate disappointment.  The humour comes from the culture differences and some funny things about Greeks.  So if you need a good laugh this is movie is for you.  If I had one disappointment, it would be that the movie had been hyped so much, I had expected a little more.  I'm not sure what, but it wasn't quite as sensational as I thought it would be.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 51 WIDTH="774"><div> Lutz's Rating  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <img src="HTMLobj-1010/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </FONT></div> <div> Judy's Rating  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <img src="HTMLobj-1011/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </FONT></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 148 WIDTH="774"><div> Storyline From Yahoo:  Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (NIA VARDALOS). Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba’s, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (MICHAEL CONSTANTINE) and Maria (LAINIE KAZAN) and smells like garlic bread. Vowing that she'd rather stab herself in the eye with a red-hot poker than work in the restaurant for the rest of her life, Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not. After taking a job at her aunt’s travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller (JOHN CORBETT), a high school teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn’t sure which will be more upsetting to her old-fashioned father, that Ian is a Xeno (foreigner) or that he’s a vegetarian. But none of it matters once he asks her to marry him. Toula knows that if he can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church...their big fat Greek wedding, including one powder blue limousine, two ice sculptures and ten bridesmaids in turquoise dresses, will be a piece of cake, five layers high with a plastic staircase and a fountain of champagne. </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>