the year: 2009
the genre: comedy
the cast: Nia Vardalos (Georgia); Richard Dreyfuss (Irv); Alexis Georgoulis (Poupi Kakas)
the plot: Georgia is an American academic who's lost her teaching job in Athens and taken a job as a tour guide - which she hates (and it and it shows). Her latest group of tourists is much like the others - bored with history and more interested in shopping - and includes a frat boy, a sullen teen, a feuding couple, divorcées on the prowl, a silent driver and lots of other fun characters. AND the bus doesn't have air conditioning. But thanks to an unlikely friendship, some daisies, an ice-cream cone, the history of syrup, and the Oracle at Delphi, Georgia may have a shot at finding her kefi during this four-day tour.
don't miss: the stereotypical tourists. And how Nico gets payback.
listen for: "Sweet marble cake! She speaks American."
extra bonus points: if you know who plays the creepy hotel clerk.
disclaimer: there's one make out scene to skip. You'll know it when you get there.
4 comments:
Nia's husband Ian Gomez. They seem like such a mix-matched couple, but I love that they try to always be in each others movies.
This movie was painful. I almost got kicked out of the room multiple times.
Correct, Laney!
Blaine, I can see where kicking would be painful.
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