Driving Aphrodite
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The combination of the appealing Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and the breathtaking location shooting in Greece make Driving Aphrodite (My Life in Ruins) the perfect film escape. The film works as a feather-light romantic comedy, with Vardalos’s character, Georgia, facing burnout in her job with a cut-rate tour company in Greece. Georgia knows there’s magic in the Greek countryside and history, yet the grind of her job has drained her. Happily for Georgia, her latest group of semi-challenging tourists will help her shed some of her hard-built personal armor, guiding her to cut loose as the tour progresses (a journey mirrored in Vardalos’s hairstyle, which starts out prim, and ends up attractively tousled). The strong supporting cast includes Richard Dreyfus, seeming very comfortable playing an old coot, Rita Wilson, and the dreamy Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis, a bus driver with the soul of a poet. And possibly a secret crush on the oblivious Georgia. But the true star of the film is Greece itself, from the coastline to the mountains, from the Acropolis to the Parthenon. That so few American films are shot on location makes this summer treat even more appealing, as sweet as fresh baklava. –A.T. Hurley
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This feel good movie was shot in my home town of Alicante ,Spain , as well as Greece.My family and I were lucky to be selected as extras and can be seen a few times! Despite that , we saw this movie at the cinema in Spanish and thoroughly enjoyed it as we are huge Richard Dreyfuss fans. We met Nia and all the cast and even had a meal with them .We have to say we found the film charming and it was a pleasure to see a movie that was not full of swearing and violence and had a happy ,romantic ending ! What a lovely guy Richard Dreyfuss is !
Rating: 4 / 5
Worth a watch for any romantic comedy fans, with good performances from Nia Vardalos and Richard Dreyfuss, enjoy.
Rating: 4 / 5
I read some bad reviews of this film in the press last year, but fortunately you can’t believe everything you read in the paper! My wife and I watched this film together and thoroughly enjoyed it. The cast are great with characters that complement each other well. We laughed a lot, and were also reminded of how lovely Greece and Greek culture is. It’s a simple storyline, but fun, and without a lot of distasteful scenes or language.
Nia plays a great part, and looks gorgeous in this movie. According to my wife Alexis Georgoulis (Poupi) also turns out to be quite a hunk! Richard Dreyfuss injects some magic into the storyline and plays a lovely pivotal character.
I would watch this film many times and not get bored. I can really recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
This movie is about a tour guide who needs to learn how to love her job, and life in general. I am a tour guide and I found myself laughing and even crying at times. In the US they would say ‘been there, done that….’. Well, I loved this movie, because I found a lot of myself in it. I bought it because during my tours, last summer, someone told me about it. I can say now that I am glad I have followed the advice! Being a tour guide is a tough job, but very rewarding, because it is all about giving and sharing. You have to share your knowledge, give your help, your patience, your understanding and your love to your group. That is what the protagonist of the movie needs to learn. She learns it all right! SHe learns to open her heart! That is what being a tour guide means: you have to open and listen to your heart because you are entrusted a group of people that will depend on you. I feel blessed to have a chance of doing it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Firstly I’ve got to say, if you liked My Big Fat Greek Wedding, then you’ll really enjoy this, I actually prefer Driving Aphrodite. For starters, Nia’s character’s love interest is so much hotter in this one!, Procopi played by Alexis Georgoulis. It was John Corbett (aka Mr Big!) who played Ian Miller in the first one, whom I’ve never found remotely attractive.
The story is based around Nia’s character Georgia who is temporarily a tour guide in Greece (until she gets the teaching job at a University which she is banking on). She meets lots of different nationalities who are on her tour, and there is one laugh after another. If you enjoyed films such as National Lampoon’s European Vacation, then you’ll love this!
I can’t believe this film was a straight to dvd, and didn’t make it to the cinemas. It deserved a lot more.
Rating: 4 / 5