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My Life in Ruins (2009)

My Life in Ruins poster
Directed by
Donald Petrie
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States, Spain
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 441 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A tour guide in Greece feels stuck in her job and unlucky in love. A group of tourists and a grumpy client lead her through messy but funny misadventures among ancient ruins, and she finds a new outlook on her life.

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What happens

My Life in Ruins (released as Driving Aphrodite in the United Kingdom) is a 2009 romantic-comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams and Alistair McGowan. Set among the ruins of ancient Greece, the film follows a tour guide whose life takes a personal detour, while her group gets entangled in comic situations among the ruins, with a series of unexpected stops along the way. The film was released on May 7, 2009, in Greece and on June 5, 2009, in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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