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My Life in Ruins is a film of genre Comedy directed by Donald Petrie released in USA on 5 june 2009 with Nia Vardalos
My Life in Ruins (2009)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 june 2009
Length 1h35
Directed by Donald Petrie
Themes Le thème des vacances
Rating59%
My Life in Ruins (UK title: Driving Aphrodite) is a 2009 romantic comedy film set amongst the ruins of ancient Greece, starring Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams and British comedy actor and impressionist Alistair McGowan. The film is about a tour guide whose life takes a personal detour, while her group gets entangled in comic situations among the ruins, with a series of unexpected stops along the way. The film was released on June 5, 2009 in the United States, and May 7, 2009 in Greece.
Synopsis
Georgia (Nia Vardalos) is a Greek American tour guide who is leading a tour around Greece with an assorted group of misfit tourists who would rather buy a T-shirt than learn about history and culture. In a clash of personalities and cultures, everything seems to go wrong, until one day when an older traveller named Irv Gideon (Richard Dreyfuss), shows her how to have fun, and to take a good look at the last person she would ever expect to find love with, her Greek bus driver (Alexis Georgoulis).Actors
Nia Vardalos
(Georgia Ianakopolis)
Richard Dreyfuss
(Irv Gideon)
Aléxis Georgoúlis
(Poupi Kakas)
Harland Williams
(Big Al Sawchuck)
Rachel Dratch
(Kim)
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