It tells a romance between an American woman of Greek descent (Nithe Vardalos, who likewise wrote a script) & a non-Greek U.s. (played by John Corbett). It as well examines a protagonist's riotous love/hate relationship by using her ethnic heritage & value models.

Area were filmed within Chicago, Illinois, USA, and at Ryerson Polytechnic University and other locations inside Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When the February 2002 premier, it was at the start freed in the United states April 19, 2002. That summertime it opened inside Iceland, Israel, Greece, and Canada. A as punishment fall & wintertime it opened within Turkey, UK, New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Norway, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Taiwan, the Philippines, Egypt, Peru, Sweden, Mexico, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Switzerland (German speaking region), France, Poland, Kuwait, Estonia, and Lithuania. It was eventually freed inside South Korea in March 2003, and Japan in July 2003.

Martin Grove writes, A moving picture inspired a brief 2003 TV series My Heavy Fat Greek Life, by having virtually all of a major characters played per equivalent actors, using the exception of Steven Eckholdt replacing John Corbett as a hubby. Corbett experienced already signed in to the TV series Lucky. He wwhen scheduled to come out as a right friend of his replacement's character, however a indicate was cancelled prior to he appeared.

Tagline: Love is on text to stay... therefore is her personal.

Main cast
Nia Vardalos as Toula Portokalos John Corbett as Ian Miller Michael Constantine as Gus Portokalos Lainie Kazan as Maria Portokalos Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula Louis Mandylor as Nick Portokalos Gia Carides as Cousin Nikki Jayne Eastwood as Mrs. White