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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Running Time: 98 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
When prospective fathers-in-law Steve Tobias and Jerry Peyser meet for the first time to celebrate their children’s upcoming marriage, the cake hits the fan. Dr. Jerome Peyser is a mild-mannered podiatrist with a well-organized daily routine designed to eliminate all possible sources of stress. Meanwhile, daredevil CIA operative Steve Tobias moves through life like a heat-seeking missile. His average day consists of dodging bullets, stealing private jets and negotiating with international arms smugglers. Now he’s giving potential father-of-the-bride Jerry a serious case of pre-nuptial jitters. Steve’s dramatic entrances and exits, his cryptic references to a Russian runaway named Olga and his fight with a gunman in a restaurant washroom causes Jerry to see a vision of his daughter’s perfectly planned wedding blowing up in his face. As far as Jerry’s concerned, letting Steve into his family takes "til death do us part" way too literally. Before he can say the wedding is off, Jerry suddenly finds himself embroiled in the chaos that follows in Steve’s wake as he is dragged kicking and screaming into a series of perilous adventures that take the mismatched in-laws-to-be halfway around the world.
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Steve Tobias
Jerry Peyser
Angela Harris
Marc Tobias
Judy Tobias
Thibodoux
Melissa Peyser
Katherine Peyser
Cherkasov
Cherkasov's Bodyguard
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reviews
May 23, 2003
Everything sly and low-key about The In-Laws, a 1979 comedy about a dentist (Alan Arkin) and a rogue CIA agent (Peter Falk) with nothing in common except that the son of one is marrying the daughter of the other, is supersized and coarsened in Andrew Fleming's remake. There are laughs, thanks to Michael Douglas as the agent and Albert Brooks as the doc, now a prissy, fastidious Chicago podiatrist. When the agent takes the doc and his family to a Vietnamese restaurant that serves live snake,
The In-Laws is a remake of Arthur Hiller's 1979 wedding comedy about a mild-mannered dentist who, while preparing for his daughter's nuptials, clashes with the groom's father, a government agent. The premise of Warner Bros.' 21st century version is pretty similar: Michael Douglas is Steve Tobias, a ''daredevil CIA operative,'' and Albert Brooks is Dr. Jerry Peyser, an uptight podiatrist. The foot doctor's daughter and bride-to-be, Melissa (Lindsay Sloane), and her fiancé, Marc (Ryan Reynolds),
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