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Name: Meet the Parents
Released: 2000-10-6
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson

Meet the Parents

PG-13
1h 47m
2000

85%

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Male nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is poised to propose to his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo) during a weekend stay at her parents' home. But here's the catch... he needs to ask her father first. Alas, the fur flies as Jack Byrnes, Pam's cat-crazy, ex-CIA father, played hysterically by Academy Award winner Robert De Niro, takes an immediate dislike to her less-than-truthful beau. Greg's quest for approval gets seriously sidetracked as Murphy's Law takes over an d a hilarious string of mishaps turns him into a master of disaster and total pariah in the eyes of the entire family... all except his shell-shocked girlfriend, who can't believe she still loves her one-man wrecking crew. Meet the Parents, from the director of Austin Powers, is an uproarious blockbuster hit that bombards you with one laugh after another, as true love tries to conquer all, against all odds.

Director:

Jay Roach

Producer:

Nancy Tanenbaum, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro

Writer:

Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Nicole DeHuff, Jon Abrahams

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: Despite sometimes sitcom-like execution, Meet the Parents is a hilarious look at familial relationships that works mostly because the chemistry between its two leads is so effective.

Reviews

Times (UK)

Wendy Ide

It’s just that it’s the kind of comedy that’s as likely to have you gnawing your fist in an agony of embarrassment as it is to make you laugh.

Meet the Parents may not demand repeat viewings—a number of the jokes are based in shock humor, therefore don’t last beyond their first exposure—but that first time, it’s an incredibly funny studio comedy.

Meet the Parents isn't as funny as There's Something About Mary, nor as outrageous. But it confirms that Ben Stiller is the best of today's young practitioners of frustration comedy.

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller seem evenly matched, making effective foils.

Scenes that should have been uproarious are weaker than many of the movie's smaller moments, whose everyday humor isn't specific to the plot or characters.

August 16, 2017

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