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Driving Aphrodite

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Driving Aphrodite

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An American academic living in Greece is reduced to working as a guide for tour parties who show no interest in the country's culture and history. However, her latest assignment reawakens her lust for life as she forms a friendship with a wisecracking widower and begins to fall for the laconic bus driver. Comedy, starring Nia Vardalos and Richard Dreyfuss

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Karen Krizanovich

Lightning doesn't strike twice here for star Nia Vardalos, whose 2002 romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding was the undoubted sleeper hit of that year. Again capitalising on her Greek roots, Vardalos plays Georgia, an impossibly glamorous Greek-American academic forced to work as a second-class tour guide in Athens. She swears this is her last summer leading a group of motley tourists to the famous sights of Greece, but soon rediscovers her joie de vivre thanks to a wisecracking widower (Richard Dreyfuss), as well as encountering a bit of romance with her initially unappealing coach driver (Alexis Georgoulis). Despite a game cast (that also includes impressionist Alistair MacGowen as a rival tour guide), this is a weak, predictable 1970s-style comedy travelogue that provides more hearty stereotypes than laughs.

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rolenameGeorgiaNia VardalosIrvRichard DreyfussPoupiAlexis GeorgoulisNicoAlistair McGowanBig AlHarland WilliamsKimRachel DratchDr TullenCaroline GoodallMr TullenIan OgilvyElinorRita WilsonKenSimon GleesonLenaMaria Adanez

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rolenameDirectorDonald Petrie

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros

Released on

2009-10-02

Languages

English | Greek

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