The Flicks on the Bricks series is back for the eighth year with classic movies and wines on the patio of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. Wine expert Barbara Baxter will introduce the wines paired with each movie! Come and enjoy glamour, drama, hot popcorn, and special wines on warm summer nights.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002, 95 min) Greek Wine
One woman's rocky road to the altar gets played for laughs in this comedy, adapted from the one-woman off-Broadway show written by and starring Nia Vardalos. Toula (Vardalos) is a Greek American woman who is in her early thirties and single. This bothers Toula a bit, but not half as much as it distresses her mother (Lainie Kazan) and father (Michael Constantine). Since Toula works in the family business, a Greek restaurant in Chicago, she has to hear about it whether she likes it or not. One day, after seeing a handsome stranger in the restaurant and not having the courage to talk to him, Toula decides she needs a bit of self-improvement and spruces herself up with a new look and a new attitude. To her very pleasant surprise, she once again encounters the handsome stranger, who soon asks her out on a date. Schoolteacher Ian Miller (John Corbett) is seemingly perfect?he's tall, handsome, smart, good-natured, and soon in love with Toula?except for two little things: he's not Greek, and he's a vegetarian, both of which horrify Toula's family. When Ian pops the question (and Toula says yes), there's the matter of the wedding, which Toula's mother is planning around the notion that quantity IS quality.
Admission/Cost: $17 - $22
Series: $60/80; individual screenings: $17/22
Location:
La Jolla Athenaeum
1008 Wall St
La Jolla, CA 92037
Thursday, August 27 - 7:30 PM
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002, 95 min) Greek Wine
One woman's rocky road to the altar gets played for laughs in this comedy, adapted from the one-woman off-Broadway show written by and starring Nia Vardalos. Toula (Vardalos) is a Greek American woman who is in her early thirties and single. This bothers Toula a bit, but not half as much as it distresses her mother (Lainie Kazan) and father (Michael Constantine). Since Toula works in the family business, a Greek restaurant in Chicago, she has to hear about it whether she likes it or not. One day, after seeing a handsome stranger in the restaurant and not having the courage to talk to him, Toula decides she needs a bit of self-improvement and spruces herself up with a new look and a new attitude. To her very pleasant surprise, she once again encounters the handsome stranger, who soon asks her out on a date. Schoolteacher Ian Miller (John Corbett) is seemingly perfect?he's tall, handsome, smart, good-natured, and soon in love with Toula?except for two little things: he's not Greek, and he's a vegetarian, both of which horrify Toula's family. When Ian pops the question (and Toula says yes), there's the matter of the wedding, which Toula's mother is planning around the notion that quantity IS quality.
Admission/Cost: $17 - $22
Series: $60/80; individual screenings: $17/22
Location:
La Jolla Athenaeum
1008 Wall St
La Jolla, CA 92037
Thursday, August 27 - 7:30 PM
