I have had
several bleak days lately, so last night I decided to kick-start my life. And it worked. I had a nice dinner with a nice woman and
consumed several glasses of a very nice wine – and then I returned to my
apartment and dialed up this little gem from the recent past. Now I feel a lot better.
Wedding is a very funny movie. Moreover, there isn’t a mean-spirited bit in it. It gets its laughs without
dumping ridicule on anybody or anything.
Its star, “Nia” Vardalos, is a Canadian of Greek descent, who has had a
successful but not overwhelming career in the movies, as actress, writer,
director, and producer. You probably
wouldn’t recognize the names of the supporting players so I won’t list them;
they were uniformly excellent. I will
praise Michael Constantine who played Nia’s father (see picture), who could demonstrate that
every word in the English language had a Greek root – and that a squirt of
Windex could cure practically anything.
(I keep a small jug of the stuff in my medicine cabinet. Who knows?)
My big fat Greek wedding came
out in 2002 to considerable critical acclaim.
It made a bunch of money, and Vardalos got a heap of honors. Good.
B+/A-
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