My Big Fat Greek Summer

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Movie
German title My Big Fat Greek Summer
Original title My Life in Ruins
Country of production United States , Spain , Greece
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Donald Petrie
script Mike Reiss
production Michelle Chydzik Sowa
Nathalie Marciano
Tom Hanks
music David Newman
camera José Luis Alcaine
cut Patrick J. Don Vito
occupation

My Big Fat Greek Summer (Original Title: My Life in Ruins ) is a romantic comedy film from 2009 directed by Donald Petrie . The main roles were played by Nia Vardalos and Richard Dreyfuss .

action

A diverse group of holidaymakers who love to travel goes on a sightseeing tour through the archaeological ruins of Greece. The frustrated tour guide Georgia - an American-Greek history professor - resolves that this will be her last job as a tour guide. Every time it's the same with the crazy tourists who drive you crazy, and every time Georgia goes from one fool to the next in her travels. As always, everything goes wrong on their supposed last excursion: The hotel is the last shack, the tourists are only nagging, and the bus driver Poupi Kakas only seems to serve the general amusement of the tourists - because of his name alone, is when the trip begins the laughter great. But little by little - and with the help of the astute vacationer Irv - Georgia discovers that there is more than a grim, shaggy Greek behind her bus driver, and so this tour doesn't seem to end like everyone else. Georgia finds a new love where she least expected it.

Production and publication

  • My Life in Ruins premiered in the US on February 6, 2009 and was released in US theaters on June 5, 2009. In Germany, “My Big Fat Greek Summer” was released on October 15, 2009 in cinemas.

Reviews

“A tabloid comedy aimed at pure cliché without timing and punchlines. In the context of her predictability, she still entertains largely solidly, not least thanks to the sympathetic leading actress. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Nice comedy about tourists in cultural situations, and how their annoyed tour guide transfers her own problems and worries to the group. Dramaturgically off the peg, the film is very solidly designed and staged and should inspire quite a few viewers. Nia Vardalos, known from " My Big Fat Greek Wedding ", plays the leading role and proves that she is far too rarely seen on the big screen. "

- Movie Maze

“Seldom has a film shown more intrusively in its title the successful keelwater in which it intends to swim. With My Big Fat Greek Wedding , the actress and author Nia Vardalos achieved a rare cinematic miracle in 2002. "

- Berliner Morgenpost

“ My Big Fat Greek Summer is sometimes more, sometimes less entertaining cinema fun in front of an illustrious Greek backdrop, but which leaves no trace on the audience. With the exception of the very weird scene in which a few Canadian tourists get really angry when they are addressed as stupid Americans. The friendly Canadians can live with the fact that they are stupid. But to be called an American goes too far. "

- BR-online

Others

  • It is the first time since the film Boy on a Dolphin (Boy on a Dolphin) from 1957 that a film crew from Hollywood on the Acropolis was allowed to shoot movies. The Greek government had previously declined all requests for fear that a pick-up staff could damage the fragile archaeological ruins. But they made an exception after an article appeared in Britain's The Guardian because they thought it would help promote Greek culture.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for My Big Fat Greek Summer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 019 K).
  2. ↑ IMDb release info , accessed on October 23, 2009
  3. ↑ boxofficemojo.com . Retrieved May 25, 2014
  4. ^ My Big Fat Greek Summer in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed October 23, 2009 Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  5. ↑ Movie Maze - review of My Big Fat Greek Summer ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost - review of My Big Fat Greek Summer , accessed on October 23, 2009
  7. ↑ BR-online - review of My Big Fat Greek Summer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 23, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de  
  8. ↑ a b IMDb-Trivia , accessed on October 23, 2009