<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $5 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $368.7 million </Td> </Tr> <P> My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos, who also stars in the film as Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with non-Greek upper middle class White Anglo - Saxon Protestant Ian Miller . The film received generally positive reviews from critics and, at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . </P> <P> A sleeper hit, the film became the highest - grossing romantic comedy of all time, and grossed $241.4 million in North America, despite never reaching number one at the box office during its release . It was the highest - grossing film to accomplish this feat for 14 years until the animated film Sing grossed $268 million in 2016 . </P>

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