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My Life in Ruins

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Hollywood Premier in Athens

My Life in Ruins is a romantic comedy set amongst the ruins of ancient Greece. Georgia (Nia Vardalos) is a Greek-American tour guide who leads an assorted group of misfit tourists around Greece. Tourists who would rather buy a T-shirt than learn about history. In a hysterical clash of personalities and culture, everything seems to go wrong. Until one day when a very special tourist, Irv Gordon (Richard Dreyfuss), shows her how to have fun and take a good look at the last person she’d ever expect to find love with…her quiet and sexy Greek bus driver.

Following the huge success of “My Big Greek Fat Wedding,” Vardalos’s new Greek-themed, Hollywood movie premiers in Athens on April 3, 2009, at the Athens Concert Hall. A press conference at the New Acropolis Museum will take place the day before.

Securing permission to shoot has been years in the making, a process that began when Vardalos agreed to attach herself to the script. While Tom Hanks and others began raising funds, Vardalos contacted then-Minister of Tourism Fanny Pali-Petralia and the Minister of Culture at the time, George Voulgarakis, and began the long process of working the request through many levels of government. “It was a lot of dinners and handshaking, a lot of requesting permission and really assuring them that we would leave the ruins exactly as we found them,” Vardalos said.