13 Movie Moments That Surprised The Hell Out Of The Audience

8. The Refreshing Truth - My Big Fat Greek Wedding

This charming romantic movie has a claim to fame as being the highest grossing romantic film that never hit number one at the box office. Based on the one-woman play by star Nia Vardalos, it told the story of Fotula €œToula€ Portokalos (Vardalos), a middle-aged Greek woman who falls in love with a non-Greek man (John Corbett) and marries him with the (at first) begrudging support of her large family. Heading towards "unmarriable age" Toula falls in love with Ian, a teacher, counter to her family expectations of her being a good Greek girl: she hasn€™t married a good Greek boy and had lots of Greek babies. The pair are smitten but Toula knows that her father (Michael Constantine) will not approve of her choice, as Ian is definitely not Greek. Ian is forthcoming about his background, but Toula demurs as Ian presses her for details of her family, but finally, she blurts out how different Greek traditions are from his traditional ones, and she €œdoesn€™t think this is going to work.€ Ian listens calmly, and then replies, €œSo you€™ve got a weird family. Who doesn€™t? I just want to spend time with you.€ This subtle shift to the truth is what sets this film apart from most other romantic comedies. The usual formula would have been for Toula to lie about her family history and the rest of the film would have exposed the ever-expanding consequences of that first white lie.