If you're going to compare local comedy Big Mamma's Boy to a film like 2002 hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, don't do it in front of Franco Di Chiera. The director says that while he understands where this idea might come from, the notion is absurd. "The only parallels that you could draw is that it's about a non-English speaking family ," he says. "I don't buy that. It's like saying other romantic comedies are like Notting Hill because they're set in an English-speaking community in London." "I did take inspiration from the success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, in that so often those stories are marginalized because people just see them as an immigrant story." Big Mamma's Boy - which received the producer offset tax...
- 7/28/2011
- by Amanda Diaz and Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
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