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    • Meet the Parents is a 2000 American romantic comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. 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 and Blythe Danner as Jack and Dina Byrnes). In addition, T… See more

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    Release dateOctober 6, 2000 (USA)
    Content ratingPG-13 · Not Rated · TV-14
    GenreComedy · Romance
    Directed byJay Roach
    Plot

    Greg Focker, a Jewish American nurse living in Chicago, intends to propose to his girlfriend, daycare teacher Pam Byrnes. He chooses to get her father's blessing at her sister Debbie's wedding at their parents' house on … See more

    Cast

    • Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes, a retired CIA agent and a Vietnam War veteran who is overprotective of his family, slightly paranoid, and takes an instant dislike towards Greg
    • Ben Stiller as Gaylord "Greg" Focker, a n… See more

    Themes

    Greg Focker is a middle-class Jewish nurse whose social and cultural position is juxtaposed against the Byrnes family of upper-middle class White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. With respect to Greg as a Jew and a nurs… See more

    Production

    The film is a remake of a 1992 independent film of the same name. Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke wrote the original story and screenplay. Glienna also directed and starred in the 76-minute film which was filmed on … See more

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    Greg Glienna did not come up with the surname Focker; Greg's character in the original film did not have a last name. The name was written into the script after Jim Carrey came up with the idea for the Focker sur… See more

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  1. IMDb
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    Meet the Parents (2000) - IMDb

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  3. Wikipedia
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    Meet the Parents - Rotten Tomatoes

    Everything that can possibly go wrong for groom-to-be Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) does. The problems begin with Greg's disastrous first meeting with his girlfriend's family -- most...

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    Meet The Parents movie review (2000) - Roger Ebert

    “Meet the Parents” builds brilliantly on interlocking comic situations, until Greg has involved himself with a counterfeit cat, set the house afire and flooded the lawn (where Pam’s sister is about to be married) with an overflowing …

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    Meet the Parents (2000) - Plot - IMDb

  9. YouTube
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    Meet the Parents (2000) - The Movie Database (TMDB)

    Oct 6, 2000 · Greg 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.