Meet the Parents Collection

Comedy

Romance

Meet the Parents

Universal Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures

Nancy Tenenbaum Films

Tribeca Productions

United States of America

English

Ben Stiller

Robert De Niro

Teri Polo

Blythe Danner

Nicole DeHuff

Jon Abrahams

Owen Wilson

James Rebhorn

Tom McCarthy

Phyllis George

Kali Rocha

Bernie Sheredy

Judah Friedlander

Peter Bartlett

John Elsen

Mark Hammer

Amy Hohn

William Severs

John Fiore

Marilyn Dobrin

Marci Reid

Frank Santorelli

Russell Hornsby

Patricia Cook

Cody Arens

Cole Hawkins

Spencer Breslin

Ina Rosenthal

Kim Rideout

Kresh Novakovic

John Joseph Gallagher

G.A. Aguilar

Lynn Ann Castle

Greg Hayden

Rusty Smith

Peter James

John Kasarda

Ellen Chenoweth

Jon Poll

Karin Wiesel

Daniel Orlandi

John Hamburg

Jay Roach

Jim Herzfeld

Kim Drummond

Valentina Aulisi

Peter Epstein

Amy Sayres

Randy Newman

Jane Rosenthal

Nancy Tenenbaum

Shauna Robertson

Jim Vincent

Ron Michaels

Emo Philips

Ken Nelson

Alyson Wellins

Brett Botula

Hyun-joo Kim

Steven E. Lawler

Amy Safhay

Phillip V. Caruso

Bobby Mancuso

Victor DeNicola

Bill Anagnos

Susie Farris

Dennis Drummond

Daniel Geary

Joe DeAngelis

Julie Kuehndorf

Tom Prate

Rocco Curatolo

Orin Faison

Julie Arenal

Dennis McNeill

Solange Monnier

Bruno Coon

John Glaser

Edmund Nardone

George H. Anderson

Morris Flam

Clay Liversidge

Kate Kelly

Lenny Vullo

Randall Poster

Steven Blaho

Edward O'Donnell

Tommy Allen

Bill Almeida

William MacGhee

John Quaglia

Richard Cowan

Cynthia Bauer

Eva Z. Cabrera

Michal Bigger

Curtis Croeni

James Morioka

Lisa Rodgers

Jeff Flach

Kevin Du Toit

J.C. Brotherhood

Maurice Fitzgerald

William Riley

Joseph Barry

Frank Graziadei

Tod A. Maitland

David D. Johnson

Don Davis

Jonathan Klein

Jeffrey Rollins

David Davenport

Renée Tondelli

Gary Burritt

Carey DePalma

Jennifer Truelove

Mike Bundlie

Jeanette Browning

Ronald Burke

Mark Cross

Johnny Egan

Jim Lillis

Brenda Heins

Amy Lauritsen

Kenny Burke

Grant Wilfley

David Boulton

Eric Cheripka

Ron Mellegers

Kent Blocher

Juliet D'Annibale

**_A serious beau becomes a master of disaster when he meets his girlfriend's parents_**

A male nurse from Chicago (Ben Stiller) wants to pop the question to his girlfriend (Teri Polo), but first has to visit Long Island and meet the parents (Robert De Niro & Blythe Danner).

“Meet the Parents” (2001) is a good romantic comedy with Stiller effective as the every-man in a challenging mundane situation that most guys can relate to. The first half involves droll humor as Greg awkwardly meets his potential parents-in-law and suspects that the father doesn’t like him. Yet this is just a set-up for the wild mishaps of the second half as Murphy’s Law goes into effect.

Teri looks great while Nicole DeHuff is on hand as the sister. Elsewhere, an iconic actor of the period shows up in the second half, but I don’t want to give it away as it’s a welcome surprise (it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out seeing as how this is a Ben Stiller comedy).

The sequel “Meet the Fockers” came out four years later and it’s lousy by comparison with distasteful non-humor consisting mostly of juvenile jokes about sex from senior citizens. It was an embarrassment to the iconic actors.

The movie runs 1 hour, 48 minutes, and was shot mostly on Long Island at Old Brookville and nearby Oyster Bay.

GRADE: B+

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The time has come for "Greg" (Ben Stiller) to meet the parents of his girlfriend "Pam" (Teri Polo). He wants to marry her, indeed he even buys a ring - but when the airline makes him check in his bag, then lose the thing and a baby throws up over his shirt he might be forgiven for thinking he'd be better of staying at home. Nope, he perseveres and meets her folks - "Jack" (Robert De Niro) and "Dina" (Blythe Danner) and now his troubles really do begin. Rather than just the usual charming family repartee, "Greg" finds himself under a microscope of penetrative inquisition from his would-be in-law, and it gradually emerges that he has maybe held back on a few truths with "Pam" and he does (or doesn't) like cats. He's also a male nurse called "Focker" - further facts which don't really helps his cause, either. As the weekend progresses, "Greg" lurches from the frying pan to the fire, trashes a sentimental urn, get's stitched up by her brother "Denny" (Jon Abrahams) and I think if it'd been me, I'd have abandoned ship however much I might have loved the woman. Danner always manages to impose herself gently in comedy, her facial expressions and demeanour adding an approving or disapproving look that speaks volumes, and here she works well with De Niro whose controlling behaviour is really the source of much of the humour here. It's not laugh out loud funny, and there's far too much dialogue, but when De Niro is at his most controllingly mischievous, then this is worth a watch. Who doesn't like a bit of Peter, Paul & Mary too?

First Dinner with the Byrnes

Theatrical Trailer #2

Meet the Parents (2000) Trailer

Meet The Parents - Trailer

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Ben Stiller

Robert De Niro

Teri Polo

Blythe Danner

Nicole DeHuff

Jon Abrahams

Owen Wilson

James Rebhorn

Tom McCarthy

Phyllis George

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