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| Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula. Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba's, the Greek resturant owned by her parents, and smells like garlic bread. Her days are drab and dull, just like her hair, her clothes and her attitude. Still, Toula wishes for something more. Just when she's wishing she were prettier, she locks eyes on a tall, dark, handsome stranger, in the restaurant. The handsome stranger barely notices her. Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not. A few computer classes, some contact lenses and a new attitude are the jump-start Toula's life needs. She takes a job at her aunt's travel agency, where this time, the handsome stranger locks eyes on the transformed Toula. He is Ian Miller, a high school teacher and definitely not Greek. In no time, he's asked her out on a date and soon they are falling in love and planning to marry. Toula knows that if Ian can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get baptised in the Greek Orthadox Church... then 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.
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Everyone in the Portokalos family
worries about Toula. Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing
Zorba's, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus and Maria, and smells
like garlic bread.
Her days are drab and dull, just like her hair, her clothes and her attitude.
Toula listens quietly as her family tsk-tsks about her sad situation. She
refuses offers by her father to send her to Greece to find a husband. It's like
she doesn't want to get married!
Still, Toula wishes for something more, something for herself. Just when she's
wishing she were braver, or prettier, she locks eyes on a tall, handsome
stranger, in the family restaurant, and she freezes. The handsome stranger
barely notices her.
Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not. She
devises a plan to sign up for a computer class despite her father's old-world
objections.
A few computer classes, some contact lenses and a new attitude are all the
jump-start Toula's life needs. She takes a job at her aunt's travel agency,
where this time, the handsome stranger locks eyes on the transformed Toula. He
is Ian Miller (John Corbett - Aidan from Sex and the City), a high school
teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek.
In no time, he's asked her out on a date and soon they are falling in love. But
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. The two still stand a
fighting chance of being happy if Ian's country club parents can get along with
Toula's parents, aunts, uncles, grandma and her 27 first cousins.
Toula knows that if Ian can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get
baptised in the Greek Orthodox Church... then 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.
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