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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Universal Pictures
Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Release Date: Oct 6, 2000
Running Time: 108 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Greg Focker is head over heels in love with his girlfriend Pam, and is ready to pop the big question. Greg realizes the key to Pam's hand in marriage lies with her formidable father, Jack Byrnes. A trip to New York for her sister's wedding seems just the right occasion for Greg to ask Pam to be his wife. But everything that could possibly go wrong, does. Upon his arrival at the family's picturesque home, Greg is greeted by what appears to be the picture-perfect family. But for a guy who usually resorts to dry wit in stressful situations, Greg is suddenly shooting blanks with Jack, a retired horticulturist--and rather imposing figure. No one is good enough for Jack's first-born daughter, and the fact that Greg is a cat-hating male nurse with a vulgar-sounding last name is not helping things at all. While Greg bends over backwards to try and make a good impression, his weekend begins with lost luggage at the airport and turns into a series of disasters.
cast + crew
Director
2nd unit director
Jack Byrnes
Greg Focker
Pam Byrnes
Dina Byrnes
Debbie Byrnes
Denny Byrnes
Bob Banks
Linda Banks
Larry Banks
Kevin Rawley
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Associate Producer
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Associate Producer
Randy Newman's assistant
reviews
December 11, 2000
Robert DeNiro and "ha-ha" don't seem to go together. Maybe it's the indelible gallery of mad dogs that the Oscar-winning actor, 57, has played for director Martin Scorsese in films from Raging Bull to Cape Fear. Even in The King of Comedy, he went psycho. But the fact is that De Niro started his film career being roguishly funny in Brian DePalma's Greetings and Hi Mom. He showed a deft comic touch in the otherwise laborious 1971 farce The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (go rent them and see).…
Director Jay Roach's (Austin Powers) very funny comedy of courtship terrors, Meet the Parents takes full advantage of a basic comedy escalating device -- where everything that could go wrong, does, and the film embraces a universal situation. The first intimidating meet and greet with the prospective in-laws. Ben Stiller, (in a role that will recall his lovable loser from the outlandish Farrelly Brother's comedy There's Something About Mary), plays sincere male nurse Greg, who is on the brink of… |
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