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Meet the Parents
Directed by
Jay Roach
PG-13
2000
1h 48m
Comedy
,
Romance
7.0
85%
79%
6.7
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Chicago male nurse and chronic under-achiever Greg Focker meets his charming teacher girlfriend Pam Byrnes' parents Jack and Dina before proposing, but suspicious Jack is an overprotective former CIA agent - every date's worst nightmare.
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Cast of Meet the Parents
Ben Stiller
Greg Focker
Robert De Niro
Jack Byrnes / Producer
Teri Polo
Pam Byrnes
Blythe Danner
Dina Byrnes
Nicole DeHuff
Debbie Byrnes
Jon Abrahams
Denny Byrnes
Owen Wilson
Kevin Rawley
James Rebhorn
Dr. Larry Banks
Tom McCarthy
Dr. Bob Banks
Phyllis George
Linda Banks
Kali Rocha
Flight Attendant
Bernie Sheredy
Norm the Interrogator
Judah Friedlander
Pharmacy Clerk
Peter Bartlett
Animal Shelter Worker
John Elsen
Chicago Airport Security
Mark Hammer
Hospital Patient
Amy Hohn
Ticket Agent
William Severs
Father O'Boyle
John Fiore
Kinky
Marilyn Dobrin
Kali Rocha
Meet the Parents Ratings & Reviews
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
Meet the Parents isn't as funny as There's Something About Mary, nor as outrageous. But it confirms that Ben Stiller is the best of today's young practitioners of frustration comedy.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Scenes that should have been uproarious are weaker than many of the movie's smaller moments, whose everyday humor isn't specific to the plot or characters.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Star-driven comedy at times offensive and funny.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Alas, poor Focker. He can't help himself. And we can't help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A hilarious hodgepodge of The In-Laws and Annie Hall, in which De Niro gives his best comic performance to date.
Seattle Times
Erik Lundegaard
It's the prom night scene from There's Something About Mary stretched out over an entire movie - just not as funny.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Meet the Parents is a one- -- well, maybe two- -- joke idea that starts out goofy and fun, but soon runs out of verbal or visual ammunition.
Newsday
John Anderson
If ever there was a movie that felt like it was built backward, it's Meet the Parents.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A very funny movie.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Within its formulaic confines, the humor works uncommonly well from time to time.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
It never runs out of steam or ways of inflicting more ignominy on Stiller.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
[Roach] does know how to stage discrete comic moments, taking mildly humorous nightmares and turning them into nicely wrought miniatures.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Meet the Parents builds brilliantly on interlocking comic situations.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino
This fall's pleasant surprise.
Film.com
Robert Horton
The jokes work, because they are so relentless and absurd.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
You couldn't do much better than to pit De Niro at his most humorlessly imposing against Ben Stiller at his most anxiously eager to please.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
A crisply paced romp featuring pitch-perfect performances by adversarial leads Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
With Meet the Parents, mainstream Hollywood reclaims one of its former strengths. It proves that it still knows how to provide audiences with a good time.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
See it with someone you love -- and maybe with his or her parents.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Watching Ben get the girl or be seriously injured trying always has its dry, keening pleasures.
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