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Overview

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Director:
Jay Roach
Writers (WGA):
Greg Glienna (1992 screenplay) &
Mary Ruth Clarke (1992 screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
6 October 2000 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
First comes love. Then comes the interrogation. more
Plot:
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations more
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User Comments:
Fun that any man can relate to more (469 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug references and language.
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
When the urn breaks, Mr. Jinks the cat runs and urinates on Jack's mother's ashes. In The Untouchables (1987), Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro, says he wanted Eliot Ness dead so he could go to his house in the middle of the night and 'piss on his ashes'. more
Goofs:
Continuity: While trying to get his bag into the compartment, a man tries to push past Greg, which causes him to yell "where's the fire?" Annoyed, the passenger sits in the seat in front of him. However, when Greg is being dragged out of the plane you can clearly see the same man sitting in the seats in the terminal, as though he had been there all along. more
Quotes:
Jack Byrnes: If I set you up, do you think you can spike it, Focker?
Greg Focker: Well, I would have to get pretty high.
Jack Byrnes: I bet you would, Panama Red.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Saturday Night Live: The Best of Jimmy Fallon (2005) (V) more
Soundtrack:
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Fun that any man can relate to, 7 October 2000
Author: MisterWhiplash from United States

This film is off and on very funny, and ovrall it is a good time. Mainly due to Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller's performances as the father and the guy who wants to marry his daughter. Stiller meets the parents (De Niro and Blythe Danner) in one very chaotic weekend in Long Island where anything that can go wrong for Stiller does (a spraypainted and potty trained cat, burning down by accident the alter, overflowing the septic tank, being caught with a dragon that he likes to puff and telling a story about a cat that is a show-stopper) and enhances the comedy. A feel-good comedy, even if it may hit close to home for many a lot of men. Directed by Jay Roach (or Austin Powers and Mystery Alaska fame). A-

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