If only it had felt confident enough in its clean humor to avoid unnecessary sexual dialogue and profanity, including nearly a dozen misuses of God’s name. [27][28], Upon the suggestion of Universal Studios, Roach cast De Niro in the role of Jack Byrnes due to critical acclaim of his recent comedy work in films such as Analyze This and in the live-action/animated film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. [28] Screenwriter Jim Herzfeld and director Jay Roach both confirmed that, after committing to the project and reviewing the script, De Niro was actually the person who came up with the idea for the famous polygraph test scene. [47], At the end of its theatrical run on March 29, 2001—twenty-five weeks after its opening day in North America, the film had grossed $166.2 million in the United States and a total of $330.4 million worldwide,[49] making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year both domestically[50] and worldwide. Jack is immediately suspicious of Greg and openly criticizes him for his choice of career as a male nurse and anything else he sees as a difference between Greg and the Byrnes family. Several misunderstandings also cause Jack to believe Greg is a marijuana user after Pam's weed-using brother, Denny, frames him. [14][15][19][21] Film producer Elliot Grove, founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards, listed the original Meet the Parents on his personal Top Ten list of favorite films where he called it "much funnier and tighter than the Hollywood version". "[25] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, De Niro stated that he was in active pursuit of comedic roles since Analyze This. Deleted scenes from the movie 'Meet the Parents'. On the positive side, it champions the permanence of marriage and the … The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes registered an 84% positive response based on reviews from 148 critics and certified the film "Fresh" with an average rating of 6.9/10. Gaylord "Greg" Focker is a nurse living in Chicago. John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary. Back at the Byrnes's house, Jack attempts to convince Pam that Greg was lying to her about everything. The American Humane Association oversaw the filming of all scenes where the cats were used and ensured the animals' obedience and well-being by keeping two trainers and a veterinarian on set at all times. Desperate to save himself, Greg reveals he has seen Jack engaging in some secret activity with some shady characters, and that Jack is planning a secret mission after the wedding. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug references and language, Kevin Hart, John Hamburg Team for Netflix Comedy ‘Me Time’ (Exclusive). Jay Roach read the expanded script and expressed his desire to direct it but Universal declined him. [51], The film was released on VHS and DVD on March 6, 2001. Directed by Jay Roach. "[79] Schickel concluded his review by proclaiming Meet the Parents a "superbly antic movie". [59] A French-language audio track is also available only in 5.1 Dolby Digital Format. He becomes even more uncomfortable after he receives an impromptu lie detector test from Jack and later learns from Pam that Jack is a retired CIA operative. It's the suitor meets the father story. The drafts of the script were written by Herzfeld and, once De Niro and Stiller were confirmed as stars, John Hamburg was brought on board "to help fit the script to their verbal styles. [45][46] There, it managed to earn over $21 million during its run. His plan is disrupted when Pam's sister Debbie becomes engaged and he finds out that Debbie's fiance, Dr. Robert "Bob" Banks had asked Pam's father for permission before proposing. A region 1 "Bonus Edition" was released on December 14, 2004 and contains three additional featurettes: Silly Cat Tricks, The Truth About Lying and a 12-minute-long Jay Roach: A Director's Profile. Bower notes this scene as "particularly important for establishing the cultural distance"[4] between the Jewish Greg and the Christian Byrnes. Dreamworks SKG/Universal Studios. By now, the entire Byrnes family, including Pam, agrees that it is best for Greg to leave Long Island until the wedding concludes. Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare. A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. "[2], Vincent Brook observes mainstream Hollywood cinema's tendency since the 1990s of incorporating Jewish liminality and "popularizing the Jew. 24 of 30 people found this review helpful. [74] Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly called the script "unforced"[66] and concluded that it "goes down like a flute of Champagne, leaving an aftertaste of giggles. Producer Nancy Tenenbaum acquired the rights to the 1992 film. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract. Search for "Meet the Parents" on Amazon.com, Title: 1 hr 48 min PG13 HD SD The pilot turned the plane around approximately 40 minutes into the flight after a flight attendant found a crumpled napkin that read "Bomb, bomb, bomb...meet the parents," a clear reference to the scene in which Greg repeatedly shouts the word "bomb" while being detained by airport security. Universal Pictures made Meet the Fockers because Meet the Parents grossed over $330 million against a $55 million budget. Gre… After Debbie's wedding, Jack views footage of Greg recorded by hidden cameras that he had placed strategically around the house in which Greg calls Jack a "psycho" and mocks him and exposes Denny as the true marijuana user. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. From "Dexter" to The Suicide Squad, here are our picks for the reboots and remakes we're most excited for in 2021 and beyond. Teri Polo. She noted that the social gap is further widened next morning when Greg is the last person to arrive at the breakfast table; he shows up wearing pajamas while everyone else is fully clothed. "[23] Due to changes in directorial and acting line-ups after the early drafts of the script were written, Hamburg kept adjusting and re-writing the script well after production had already begun. Sequel has moments, but a comedown from original, "Meet the Fockers" Movie Production Notes, More 'Fockers' for Universal. Here Greg is shown eating a bagel, which Bower argues as being a clear signifier of Jewishness. A man goes to meet his girlfriend's parent's....but that is when trouble starts. For other uses, see, "But I was trying to have in a kind of forties-farce way, the opportunity to create realistic characters, but heighten the comedic situations and predicaments a bit so that they're still very funny and there is still some very broad humor, but you would connect to the characters and completely identify with Ben Stiller's anxiety about not only meeting Robert De Niro's character and all, but the kind of characters from his past that come with him. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. [59], The single-disc "Collector's Edition" contains two audio commentaries, one a light-hearted and humorous discussion between Roach, Stiller, De Niro, and producer Jane Rosenthal and the other a more formal technical commentary on the film-making aspects by the director and editor Jon Poll. [27][28] This resulted in deletion of some scenes but also in introduction of at least one unscripted scene that was completely improvised by Stiller. At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. [8], Anne Bower writes about Jewish characters at mealtime as part of the broader movement she believes started in the 1960s where filmmakers started producing work that explored the "Jewish self-definition. Meet the Parents (2000) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The studio submitted to the MPAA a list of real people with the surname Focker which ensured that the film retained a PG-13 rating. 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. Parents need to know that Meet the Parents is a 2000 movie in which Robert DeNiro plays an overprotective and snooping father to a daughter who has brought home a boyfriend played by Ben Stiller who is well-intentioned and eager to win her father's affections but seems to make the worst mistakes at the most inopportune times. Like I don't like the movies with Adam Sandler. Written by Greg unintentionally gives Debbie a broken nose and a black eye during a pool volleyball game, uses a malfunctioning toilet which floods the Byrnes's backyard with sewage, and sets the wedding altar on fire. Nicole DeHuff. Haha this is one of those comedies that you will always remember. Some people might not like it but then to me they just don't have a sense of humor and that's just a pity for them. A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he disappoints his son for the last time. Despite efforts to impress her family, his inadvertent actions make him an easy target for ridicule. Within that context, Brook describes Greg Focker's character as "the quintessential example of the postmodern schlemiel. If you don't like him you probably not going to like the movie either. During the development of it, NBC called it "a Meet the Parents project" which prompted an investigation by Universal into whether NBC was infringing on Universal's copyright. [13][18][29] Once Meet the Parents was submitted for rating evaluation, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) questioned the surname Focker as possibly an expletive and, due to the repetitiveness of the surname throughout the film, it was in danger of being rated R according to the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system. In addition, the DVD features a twelve-minute outtake section, three minutes of deleted scenes, and Universal's Spotlight on Location featurette. After Meet the Parents, DeHuff had a regular role in the 2002 TV series The Court and appeared in CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Dragnet, The Practice, and Monk. The editor speaks about putting together the best functioning comedy from material that was filmed and discusses some deleted scenes that were excluded from the DVD release. [5][6][7] Speaking about character development in Meet the Parents, director Jay Roach stated that he wanted an opportunity to "do character-driven comedy"[2] and "to create realistic characters, but heighten the comedic situations and predicaments. 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. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker, have what it takes? "[25] Universal initially declined to have relatively inexperienced Roach take on the project. The film is a remake of a 1992 film of the same name directed by Greg Glienna and produced by Jim Vincent. As Greg is proposing to Pam, Jack and Dina listen in on their conversation from another room, agreeing that they should now meet Greg's parents (though both are visibly worried about this). "[5] The repeated embarrassing encounters that Greg faces with his girlfriend's all-American family is compared to the example of Jason Biggs's character Jim Levenstein of the American Pie film series where Levenstein is often the comedic centerpiece due to his repeated sexual embarrassments. [100][101][102] It was to be directed by Roach with the screenplay written by Larry Stuckey, Roach's former assistant. [14], The original motion picture soundtrack for the film was released on September 26, 2000 on the DreamWorks Records record label. [100][102] Roach was later replaced as director of the third film by Paul Weitz. [95][96] Directed again by Jay Roach with a screenplay by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, it chronicles the events that take place when the Byrnes family meets Bernie and Roz Focker, Greg's parents, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. [37], The film had its theatrical release in United States and Canada on October 6, 2000. English-language audio tracks available with the film are a 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS with the main noticeable difference being only a slightly louder bass on one of the tracks. Such stereotyping is due to a presumption that a man would prefer to be a physician but is unable to become one due to lack of intelligence or non-masculine attributes. [25][26][27][28][29] However, Spielberg and Carrey never took the project past the planning stages. Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. [22] The 1992 film was a featured entry in the 1995 Raindance Film Festival. [38] It quickly proved to be a financial success taking in $28.6 million during its opening weekend and averaging $10,950 per theater in a total of 2,614 theaters. He claims to be unable to find records of anyone named "Greg Focker" ever taking the Medical College Admission Test which Greg claimed he had passed with the initial intention of becoming a doctor. [3][4] With respect to Greg as a Jew and a nurse when compared to the Byrnes and Banks families, a distinct cultural gap is created and subsequently widened. It chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless nurse (Ben Stiller as Greg Focker) while visiting his girlfriend's parents (Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes and Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes). "[4] She describes the example of Greg sitting down for dinner with the Byrnes family and being asked to bless the food. "[12] Sandy and Harry Summers in the book Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk postulate that Greg's character, although intelligent and firm in his defense of his profession, "might have done more to rebut the stereotypes"[7] while also reporting that "some men in nursing"[7] expressed their opinions that it would have been better to not present the stereotypes at all.[7]. Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. This article is about the 2000 film. [4], Based on common misconceptions and stereotypes about men in nursing, Greg's profession is repeatedly brought up by Jack in a negative context and the character of Greg Focker has come to be one of the best known film portrayals of a male nurse. At the Byrnes's house, Greg meets Pam's father, Jack, mother, Dina, and their beloved cat, Jinx. [61] The soundtrack features 14 original compositions by Randy Newman as well as additional tracks by Bobby Womack, Lee Dorsey, and Dr. John and a hidden bonus track. Is "Puff, the Magic Dragon" really about marijuana? View production, box office, & company info. [52] The DVD sales for it were successful, taking in over $200 million for 2001. Jack angrily reveals that the secret mission was a surprise honeymoon for Debbie and her fiancé Bob, and Greg realizes he has only dug himself deeper into a hole. Later, Greg loses Jinx and replaces him with a stray whose tail he spray paints to make him look like Jinx which happens to also make a mess of the house (though the real Jinx is later found). But during a trip to New York for her sister's wedding, everything that could possibly go wrong, does. It was well received by film critics and viewers alike, winning several awards and earning additional nominations. "[5] He explains the "manly Jewish triumph"[5] of characters like Jeff Goldblum's David Levinson in Independence Day and labels it as a "certain answer to America's yearnings for a new Jewish hero. [39][43] It was displaced from No.1 during the weekend of November 3–5 by the newly released Charlie's Angels while still managing to stay ahead of The Legend of Bagger Vance, another new release that debuted at number 3. Blythe Danner. [25] His character is Pam's father and a retired CIA operative who is overly protective of his family and has a hard time warming up to his daughters' love interests. The film is a remake of a 1992 independent film of the same name. John Sacksteder . "[97] The sequel proved to be another financial success grossing $280 million domestically and $516 million worldwide,[98] outperforming Meet the Parents by a large margin and finishing as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004.[99]. Ben Stiller. I think that guy is not funny and so his comedies are painful to watch for me. [100][102] The sequel brings back De Niro, Stiller, Polo, Danner, Hoffman, and Streisand. Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. [47] In Australia, also being distributed by UIP, it was released on December 26, 2000[48] where it earned over $11 million during the theatrical run. "[84] After it was released on home media, DVD reviewer and Rolling Stone magazine contributor Douglas Pratt in his book Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! The director discusses issues that include working with the cast, utilizing the best camera angles for comedic effect, discussing scenes that were improvised and scenes that were scripted, and commenting on issues surrounding shooting on location. Story by Mary Ruth Clarke and Greg Glienna. "[66], However, Internet film critic James Berardinelli, in spite of awarding it two-and-a-half stars out of four, gave the film a somewhat scathing review. Additionally, English language subtitles are provided as well. Sale Price $1.99. Glienna also directed and starred in the 76-minute film which was filmed on 16 mm film in 1991 and released the following year. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. ", "...I think the film is fantastic, and I can't imagine a screenwriter being any happier with a film unless he directs it himself. In 2004, Meet the Fockers was released as a sequel to the film. [59][60] The region 2 edition of the DVD was released on October 22, 2001. It chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless nurse (Ben Stiller as Greg Focker) while visiting his girlfriend's parents (Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes and Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes). "[82] Jeff Vice of the Deseret News, another detractor of the film, proclaimed Meet the Parents "only erratically funny"[83] and accused Roach of taking "the cheap way out with a series of unfunny jokes. Meet the Parents starts off with "Sometimes you think that your mom and your dad are there just to nag you and boss you like mad," but then goes on to list and illustrate more things parents are good for like, "Parents are tent poles for dens that are wonky. Robert De Niro that plays his role brilliantly as well by the way. [44] It remained in the Top 10 grossing films until its 11th week. [1] The studio only offered the film to Roach once Spielberg and Carrey left the project. "[25] Additionally, Roach was impressed with Stiller's creative and ad lib abilities stating that "he has lots of great ideas and he's very skilled at loose improvisation. The script was not written with De Niro in mind as Jack Byrnes; the first draft of the script was completed in 1996, three years before De Niro appeared in Analyze This. In Meet The Parents the whole story is basically about the relation between Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. [39] In the United Kingdom, it had its theatrical premiere on December 15, 2000 and was distributed by United International Pictures (UIP). The series is made up of three movies: Meet the Parents (2000), Meet the Fockers (2004), and Little Fockers (2010). A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one patient is an insecure mob boss. She ultimately lost the role to Teri Polo because the filmmakers "didn't think [Watts] was sexy enough". [65] Dan Goldwasser, in his review of the soundtrack for Soundtrack.Net, gave credit to Newman and the soundtrack for doing "an excellent job keeping the humor level high. Released in the United States and Canada on October 6, 2000 and distributed by Universal Pictures, the film earned back its initial budget of $55 million in only 11 days. Greg and Pam travel to Pam's parents' house in Oyster Bay, Long Islandto attend the wedding. He rushes to the airport, convinces airport security to release Greg, and brings him back to the Byrnes's house. [26][28] Asked about working with him given the serious nature of his previous roles, Ben Stiller said that "it was a little bit intimidating working with De Niro" but that he "has a great sense of humor and I think that's the biggest surprise about him. 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Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) is a male nurse living in Chicago, who intends to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), a schoolteacher. [23][26] Herzfeld expanded the modest script, completing the first draft as early as 1996. WWTARecords. Roach admits to have liked the script from the beginning[27] and was very much willing to make the film even though he thought "it needed more work. It went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 2000, earning over $165 million in North America and over $330 million worldwide. Meet the Parents is a 1992 American independent comedy film written by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. The schlemiel, Brook explains, is an anti-hero in whose humiliation the audience finds supreme pleasure. [25] The script was then returned to Roach who had by now taken on his next project of Mystery, Alaska but was still interested in making Meet the Parents. 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. Greg decides to impress Pam's parents first, and propose to her in front of her family, but this plan is put on hold when the airline company loses his luggage which contains the engagement ring. Greg attempts to impress Jack, but his efforts fail. [42] Cast. Unwillingly, Greg goes to the airport where he is detained by airport security for insisting that his luggage stays with him rather than be checked. [78] Kenneth Turan, film critic for Los Angeles Times, called it "the funniest film of the year so far, possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since There's Something About Mary. 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