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Meet the Parents
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Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy and romance film directed by Jay Roach. The screenplay was written by John Hamburg and Greg Glienna, with Randy Newman composing the music. The cast includes Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner. Production was handled by TriBeCa Productions, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, and Nancy Tenenbaum Films. The film was shot in Chicago, with narrative locations set in New York and Chicago.
The movie has a runtime of 108 minutes and was released in the United States on October 6, 2000. It received a PG-13 rating and features the tagline "First comes love. Then comes the interrogation." Financially, the film had a budget of $55,000,000 and generated box office revenue of $330,444,045. It is available in video on demand format.
Critical reception included an IMDb rating of 7.0 based on 379,234 votes, a Rotten Tomatoes score of 85%, and a Metacritic score of 73/100. The film was nominated for one Oscar and has accumulated seven wins and fifteen nominations in total.
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6.7Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
Cast
- Ben Stiller as Greg Focker
- Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes
- Teri Polo as Pam Byrnes
- Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes
- Nicole DeHuff as Debbie Byrnes
- Jon Abrahams as Denny Byrnes
Themes
- daughter
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- airplane
- airport
- nurse
- cat
- orderly
- father-in-law
- epistaxis
- lost baggage
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
375,598 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
Metacritic
73/100
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 15 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jay Roach
- Screenplay by
- Jim Herzfeld John Hamburg
- Story by
- Greg Glienna Mary Ruth Clarke
- Based on
- Meet the Parents , by Greg Glienna Mary Ruth Clarke
- Produced by
- Nancy Tenenbaum Jay Roach Jane Rosenthal Robert De Niro
- Starring
- Robert De Niro Ben Stiller Blythe Danner Teri Polo James Rebhorn Jon Abrahams Owen Wilson
- Cinematography
- Peter James
- Edited by
- Jon Poll Greg Hayden
- Music by
- Randy Newman
- Production companies
- DreamWorks Pictures TriBeCa Productions Nancy Tenenbaum Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (United States and Canada) DreamWorks Pictures (through United International Pictures ; international)
- Release date
- October 6, 2000 ( 2000-10-06 )
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $55 million
- Box office
- $330.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Meet the Fockers
- Director
- Jay Roach
- Screenwriter
- Greg Glienna
- Cast member
- Russell Hornsby
- Composer
- Randy Newman
- Producer
- Jane Rosenthal
- Production company
- TriBeCa Productions
- Narrative location
- Chicago
- Filming location
- Chicago
- Duration
- 103
- FilmAffinity ID
- 486760
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.meettheparents.com
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- publication date
- 2000-12-07
- title
- Meet the Parents
- distributed by
- DreamWorks
- box office
- 330400000
- capital cost
- 55000000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 73/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Meet the Parents is a 2000 American romantic comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. It stars Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse who visits his girlfriend Pam's parents, overprotective Jack (Robert De Niro) and pacifistic Dina (Blythe Danner), and suffers from a series of unfortunate events. Teri Polo stars as Pam, and Owen Wilson stars as Pam's ex-boyfriend Kevin.
The film is a remake of the 1992 film Meet the Parents directed by and starring Greg Glienna, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Mary Ruth Clarke. Universal Pictures purchased the rights to Glienna's film with the intent of creating a new version. Herzfeld expanded the original script but development was halted for some time. Roach read the expanded script and expressed his desire to direct it. At that time, DreamWorks Pictures' Steven Spielberg was interested in directing while Jim Carrey was interested in playing the lead role. Universal offered the film to Roach only after Spielberg and Carrey left the project.
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