Rotten
Hollywood doesn't know what to do with difference, any more than it does with ruins. It's about time Vardalos, or someone, gave the suits a guided tour.
Nina Caplan, Time Out
My Life in Ruins
The most fun you can have without a passport.
2009 · 1h 35m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Donald Petrie
Overview
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Director and cast
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10%
Tomatometer
Rotten
As a laughing-through-tears jokester tourist, Richard Dreyfuss provides the only moments of real acting, as opposed to overacting, mugging, and scenery chomping.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
It doesn't feel genuine at all, it feels contrived from start to finish.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
Rotten
You know precisely where it's headed and how it will get there halfway into Act One.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
Rotten
My Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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