My Life in Ruins

In My Life in Ruins we meet Georgia (Nia Vardalos), a Greek-American historian, who works as a travel guide in Greece. She hates her job, as her tourists are much more interested in having fun, than listen to all the historic facts about the ruins they visits.

Eventually, one participant in her travel group (Richard Dreyfus) teaches her to loosen up. Georgia falls in love with the Greek bus driver (played by cutie Alexis Georgoulis) and decide to stay in Greece, instead of returning to the States and a University job.

When you live in Greece (or know a bit about how life here actually is), this film seems absolutely ridiculous - from the moment Georgia walks out of her apartment building in Athens - one of those art deco buildings facing Akropolis that the municipality wanted to tear down to make more space for the tourist buses - to the fact that she turns down a university job in the US to work in an low-paid, insecure job in Greece.

But the ruins are beautiful. And the scenery. And the story is sweet and funny. Worth watching for that reason. And pretty much nothing else.

You can buy the DVD from amazon here.

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