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Meet the Parents (2000) 7.0
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Metascore: 73/100
Reviews: 506 user | 144 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare. Director:Jay Roach |
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| Ben Stiller | ... | ||
| Teri Polo | ... | ||
| Blythe Danner | ... | ||
| Nicole DeHuff | ... | ||
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| Owen Wilson | ... | ||
| James Rebhorn | ... | ||
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A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. 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. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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First comes love. Then comes the interrogation. See more »Genres:
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Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug references and language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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6 October 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
La familia de mi novia See more »Box Office
Budget:
$55,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$28,623,300 (USA) (6 October 2000)Gross:
ESP 2,256,312,819 (Spain) (29 June 2001)Company Credits
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Jack Byrnes: What do you mean?
Greg Focker: You know, the whole drug thing?
Jack Byrnes: No, I don't know. Why don't you tell me?
Greg Focker: Some people think that to "puff the magic dragon" means to- They're really, uh - to smoke - to smoke - a marijuana cigarette.
Jack Byrnes: Puff's just the name of the boy's magical dragon.
Greg Focker: Right.
Jack Byrnes: Are you a pothead, Focker?
Greg Focker: No! No. What? No, no, no, no, Jack. No, I'm - I'm not - I - I pass on grass all the time. ...
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(uncredited)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranged for solo lute
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Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor did an uncredited last script draft before shooting. See more »Goofs
A shadow of the camera can be seen on Pam's back after she walks by it in a bedroom. See more »Quotes
Greg Focker: [in the car listening to "Puff the Magic Dragon"] Who would've thought it wasn't really about a dragon, huh?Jack Byrnes: What do you mean?
Greg Focker: You know, the whole drug thing?
Jack Byrnes: No, I don't know. Why don't you tell me?
Greg Focker: Some people think that to "puff the magic dragon" means to- They're really, uh - to smoke - to smoke - a marijuana cigarette.
Jack Byrnes: Puff's just the name of the boy's magical dragon.
Greg Focker: Right.
Jack Byrnes: Are you a pothead, Focker?
Greg Focker: No! No. What? No, no, no, no, Jack. No, I'm - I'm not - I - I pass on grass all the time. ...
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During the opening logos, the singers in the theme music are lyrically commenting "Look at the light coming out of the earth" during the Universal logo, and "Look at the boy sitting on the moon" during the Dreamworks logo. See more »Soundtracks
Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude(uncredited)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranged for solo lute
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This is perhaps the worst film I have seen in ten years. It simply was not funny...the gags were predictable (His name was "Focker"...her middle name Martha...they marry and what's her full name???) Awful. Not even DeNiro can save this one. The theater wasn't 1/3 full, and only a little red haired lady in the back would laugh now and then...I walked out it was so bad, and really would like my money back.