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  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Georgia has lost her kefi (Greek for "mojo"). Discouraged by her lack of direction in life, she works as a travel guide, leading a rag-tag group of tourists as she tries to show them the beauty of her native Greece while waiting to land her dream job. Opening their eyes to an exotic foreign land, she too begins to see things in new ways—...

Directed By: Donald Petrie

Written By: Mike Reiss

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m

My Life in Ruins

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
34
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary Georgia has lost her kefi (Greek for "mojo"). Discouraged by her lack of direction in life, she works as a travel guide, leading a rag-tag group of tourists as she tries to show them the beauty of her native Greece while waiting to land her dream job. Opening their eyes to an exotic foreign land, she too begins to see things in new ways—...

Directed By: Donald Petrie

Written By: Mike Reiss

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63
Summery and scenic, Ruins is this season's "Mamma Mia!," a diversion that dispenses the wisdom: Let go, let live, and let love. Not bad advice, and not a bad movie, exactly.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
50
Not likely to spur much tourism to Greece. The sights, though impressive, are not photographed interestingly, and the citizens of the host country are less than welcoming.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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50
My Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
42
Vardalos has brought back the tourist comedy and delivered the dumbed-down "If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" no one wanted.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
38
Sheila Bernette, as an aged pickpocket, is less a stereotype than an escapee from some provincial British comedy of the early 1950s. But she steals necklaces and knickknacks with such finesse and gusto that she also steals the movie.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
30
A strangely self-loathing affair that paints Vardalos's tour group as a uniformly ill-mannered, culturally illiterate bunch, while rendering Greece itself as a badly plumbed third-world hellhole run by lazy, Zorba-dancing louts.
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Mike Reiss's witless, maudlin screenplay is like rancid leachate trickling from a Dumpster full of rotting sitcom scripts, Mary Kay sales manuals, and romance novels.
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Production Company 26 Films, Kanzaman
Release Date Jun 5, 2009
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline The Star of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' is Finally Going to Greece.
Website http://www.foxsearchlight.com/mylifeinruins/
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