<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <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 Canadian - American 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>

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