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Greg
Focker (Ben Stiller) is head over heels in love with his
girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), and is ready to pop the big
question. When his attempt to propose is thwarted by a
phone call with the news that Pam's younger sister is
getting married, Greg realizes that the key to Pam's
hand in marriage lies with her formidable father, Jack
Byrnes (Robert DeNiro).
A trip
to New York for her sister's wedding seems just the
right occasion for Greg to ask Pam to be his wife. But
everything that could possibly go wrong, does.
Upon
his arrival at the family's picturesque, Norman
Rockwell-like home, Greg is greeted by what appears to
be the picture-perfect family: a loving husband and wife
with a doting son and two daughters and a beloved cat.
But for a guy who usually resorts to dry wit in
stressful situations, Greg is suddenly shooting blanks
with Jack, a retired horticulturist ... and rather
imposing figure. No one is good enough for Jack's
first-born daughter, and the fact that Greg is a
cat-hating male nurse with a vulgar-sounding last name
is not helping things at all.
While
Greg bends over backwards to try and make a good
impression, his weekend begins with lost luggage at the
airport and turns into a hilarious series of one
disaster after another.
Universal
Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present a Nancy
Tenenbaum Production and Tribeca Production of Meet
the Parents, starring two-time Academy Award` winner
Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller and directed by Jay Roach (Austin
Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me).
Meet
the Parents is
produced by Nancy Tenenbaum (The Daytrippers) and
Tribeca's Jane Rosenthal, Robert DeNiro and Jay Roach.
The screenplay is by Jim Herzfeld (Meet the Deedles) and
John Hamburg (Safe Men) based on a story by Greg
Glienna & Mary Ruth Clarke.
The
film also stars Teri Polo (Felicity), Blythe
Danner (The Prince of Tides), James Rebhorn (Independence
Day), Jon Abrahams (Scary Movie), Phyllis
George (TV's NFL Today), Thomas McCarthy (Crossing
the Bridge), newcomer Nicole DeHuff and Owen Wilson (Shanghai
Noon).
Director
of photography is Peter James (Double Jeopardy), production
designer is Rusty Smith (Mystery, Alaska), costume
designer is Daniel Orlandi (Flawless), editor is
Jon Poll (Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me) and
the composer is Randy Newman (Toy Story).
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