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Released
2009 · FILM

My Life in Ruins

A disillusioned Greek tour guide sets out to rediscover her lost “kefi” by shepherding a quirky group of travelers through the country’s ancient wonders, only to find that the chaos of their journey forces her to confront love and purpose before the trip ends.

“The most fun you can have without a passport.”

Directed by
Donald Petrie
Written by
Mike Reiss
Runtime
95 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

A Greek tour guide named Georgia seeks to regain her kefi, a term meaning "mojo," by leading a diverse group of tourists through Greece and showcasing the beauty of her homeland. As they travel, she helps them discover the wonders of the country, while also beginning to view the world from a new perspective herself.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Patrick J Don VitoShot by Jose Luis AlcaineScored by David NewmanDesigned by David Chapman

Box Office

2009 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$20.5M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$20.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $8.7M — 42% of worldwide · International: $11.8M (58%)

Opening weekend: $3.2M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.7M — 54% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,164 theaters

Also known as

  • My Big Fat Greek Summerde
  • Vacances à la grecquefr
  • Le mie grosse grasse vacanze grecheit

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