Twenty years ago this week, a small, independent film with no movie stars premiered and went on to become the highest grossing romantic comedy of all time. Let’s look at the phenomenon that was 2002’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Hollywood history is littered with bad movies. 1956’s “The Conqueror” is one of the worst in a crowded field of terrible films. John Wayne stars as Genghis Khan and things only get worse from there. While it suffers from a host of racists and sexist issues – and many more overall quality issues – the reason we are talking about it today is because nearly half the cast and crew contracted cancer.