Taglines: People change. Greeks don’t.
Toula Portokalos-Miller’s (Nia Vardalos) life is in shambles. Her travel agency and the family dry cleaners have closed due to the recession. The only business still open is the family restaurant that her father, Gus (Michael Constantine), still runs. Her husband, Ian (John Corbett), is the principal at their teen-aged daughter Paris’s (Elena Kampouris) high school.
Paris, who is applying to college, feels smothered by her close-knit clan, who constantly interfere in her life. Desperate for independence and privacy, she applies to schools across the country. Ian and Toula’s marriage has become strained due to Toula’s obsessive need to be involved in Paris’s life and to “fix” whatever goes wrong in her family.
Meanwhile, Gus has convinced himself that he is directly descended from Alexander the Great and wants to write to an online ancestry site for confirmation. While sorting through his records, he discovers that his and Maria’s (Lanie Kazan) marriage certificate was never signed by the priest, technically invalidating their union. His current priest refuses to sign it but agrees to perform a new ceremony.
Gus insists that he and Maria must marry again after fifty years together, but Maria wants Gus to propose properly. Gus refuses, infuriating Maria, who refuses to go through with the ceremony. Meanwhile, when Toula and Ian are on a date night to rekindle their romance, their family catches them kissing in their car outside their house. After Gus lands in the hospital and Maria refuses to go, saying she is not his wife, Gus pleas for her to marry him again. This time she accepts.
Maria wants the wedding she never had and hires a wedding planner who quits after the rowdy family’s choices become too outlandish. The whole family, including Ian’s parents, Rodney and Harriet (Bruce Gray and Fiona Reid), and Angelo’s business partner, Patrick, pitch in to make the wedding happen. Nick urges Angelo to tell his parents, Voula (Andrea Martin) and Taki (Gerry Mendicino), that Patrick is also Angelo’s romantic partner. Gus’s estranged brother, Panos (Mark Margolis) arrives from Greece as a surprise.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is a 2016 American romantic comedy film directed by Kirk Jones and written by Nia Vardalos. The film stars Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Andrea Martin, Ian Gomez and Elena Kampouris. It is the sequel to the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Filming began in late May 2015 in Toronto. The film was released on March 25, 2016 by Universal Pictures. The film grossed $88.9 million worldwide against a $18 million budget.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Directed by: Kirk Jones
Starring: John Stamos, John Corbett, Nia Vardalos, Rita Wilson, Elena Kampouris, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin, Gia Carides
Screenplay by: Nia Vardalos
Cinematography by: Jim Denault
Film Editing by: Mark Czyzewski
Costume Design by: Gersha Phillips
Set Decoration by: James Banos
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some suggestive material.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: March 25, 2016
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