Greg Focker is a male nurse, who is ready to propose to his girlfriend Pam. However, he discovers that Pam’s father, Jack prefers to be asked for his daughter’s hand in marriage before the proposal. Greg and Pam take a visit to the Burns home, so that Greg can secretly ask Pam’s father for his daughters hand in marriage, before proposing. Jack was a former agent of the CIA, and through his own experience dislikes Greg very much. Greg, must now try to win back Jack’s trust and liking, through a visit that just cant be any worse. Through all his efforts of trying to befriend Jack, Greg ends up losing Jack’s rare cat, giving Pam’s sister a black eye, and lightings the Burns’s garden on fire – just to name a few!

Meet the Parents (2000)
  • Rating: (127,750 votes)
  • Taglines:First comes love. Then comes the interrogation. » No pressure. »
  • Runtime:108 minutes
  • Director: Jay Roach
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Jack Byrnes
    Robert De Niro
    Gaylord 'Greg' Focker
    Ben Stiller
    Pam Byrnes
    Teri Polo
    Dina Byrnes
    Blythe Danner
    Deborah Byrnes
    Nicole DeHuff
    Denny Byrnes
    Jon Abrahams
    Kevin Rawley
    Owen Wilson
    Dr. Larry Banks
    James Rebhorn
    Dr. Bob Banks
    Thomas McCarthy
    Linda Banks
    Phyllis George
  • Genres:Comedy, Romance
  • Producers:
    Robert De Niro
    producer  
    Greg Glienna
    associate producer  
    Emo Philips
    associate producer  
    Jay Roach
    producer  
    Shauna Robertson
    co-producer (as Shauna Weinberg) 
    Jane Rosenthal
    producer  
    Amy Sayres
    co-producer  
    Nancy Tenenbaum
    producer  
    Jim Vincent
    associate producer  
  • Plots: A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Meet the Parents
  • User's comment:Painfully funny by rbverhoef (rbverhoef@hotmail.com)

    Most of the funny moments in 'Meet the Parents' involve painful scenes with Ben Stiller. He plays Greg Focker, a male nurse who loves Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo). He wants to marry her with her father's permission. He hasn't met her parents yet. The movie shows us the weekend where Stiller meets the parents. Pam's father is Jack (Robert De Niro) and her mother is Dina (Blythe Danner). The more Greg tries to impress the parents, especially Jack who is a former CIA-agent, the more he humiliates himself. Not only with his actions, also with his words and stupid lies to look better.

    Stiller is perfect in this kind of role. We already saw that, especially in 'There's Something About Mary'. The more he gets in trouble, the more painful it gets, the better Stiller gets and the more we laugh. There is also a fine little part from Owen Wilson as Pam's former lover. Stiller and Wilson have made a lot of films together and for some reason their scenes always work, they at least make you smile. De Niro doesn't try very hard to be a strict person who doesn't give Greg a chance and therefore succeeds even better. The way he slowly gets harder and harder on Greg is good for a new laugh every time. 'Meet the Parents', directed by Jay Roach who also directed the 'Austin Powers' trilogy, is a fine comedy with a lot of sequences where you might feel a little uncomfortable.


  • Quotes: Jack Byrnes: I will be watching you. Pam Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat! Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
  • Also known as: Meine Braut, ihr Vater und ich (Austria), Meine Braut, ihr Vater und ich (Germany), Släkten är värst (Finland - Swedish title), Släkten är värst (Sweden), Знакомство с родителями (Russia), Apádra ütök (Hungary), Entrando Numa Fria (Brazil), Gabros tis symforas (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), La belle-famille (Canada - French title), La familia de mi novia (Argentina), Los padres de ella (Spain), Meet the Parents (Denmark), Mon beau-père et moi (France), Njeni roditelji (Serbia - imdb display title), Perhe on painajainen (Finland), Pgosh et Ha-Horim (Israel - Hebrew title), Poznaj mojego tate (Poland - imdb display title), Slekten er verst (Norway - imdb display title), Ti presento i miei (Italy), Um Sogro Do Pior (Portugal), Zor baba (Turkey - Turkish title),

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