Instead, Toula admits that the diner Ian is describing is owned by her family, and says that she's the server he once smiled at Ian, with slowly dawning realization, says, "I remember you," and the look on his face indicates that he didn't think of Toula as plain, but rather bewitching. Eventually, Toula lands a date with Ian, who doesn't recognize that she was once his waitress, and when he tells her about a terrific Greek place he wants to take her to - oh yes, it's her parents' diner - I felt a mild foreboding: Uh oh, I thought, what nutty scheme is Toula going to pull to distance herself from her eccentric Greek family, and how will she keep the cute WASP from realizing that she's still, at heart, a frump? Yet after a handsome teacher named Ian (John Corbett) smiles at her in the restaurant one day, he sparks in Toula a desire to change her image she gets contact lenses, snazzes up her wardrobe and appearance, starts attending college, and gets a job at a travel agency. Our heroine, Toula (Nia Vardalos), is a 30-year-old waitress in a diner owned by her Greek-with-a-vengeance parents, and has always been, as she describes herself, "a frump" - plain, bespectacled, overweight, and sadly single. In the first 20 minutes of the romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, there's a scene so simple it feels revelatory.
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