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Meet the Parents
Directed by
Jay Roach
PG-13
2000
1h 48m
Comedy
,
Romance
7.0
85%
79%
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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
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
Marci Reid
Traveler
Frank Santorelli
Courier
Russell Hornsby
Late Night Courier
Patricia Cook
Little Girl
Cody Arens
Little Boy
Cole Hawkins
Little Boy
Spencer Breslin
Little Boy
Ina Rosenthal
Wedding Worker
Kim Rideout
Nurse
Kresh Novakovic
Airport Policeman
John Joseph Gallagher
Cop
G.A. Aguilar
Cop
Lynn Ann Castle
Security Guard
Meet the Parents Ratings & Reviews
Deckard
November 13, 2024
The comedy still lands. Great role for De Niro and Stiller. Gold!
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.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since There's Something About Mary.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Star-driven comedy at times offensive and funny.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
With all due respect to giggles, though, you would do better to rent Raging Bull.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Newsday
John Anderson
If ever there was a movie that felt like it was built backward, it's Meet the Parents.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Whenever the movie is about to go wrong, something happens to set it right -- usually instigated by the coldly mean De Niro or the hot, nervous Stiller.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Passable movie entertainment, but like most future in-laws leaves a feeling of something still desired.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
It never runs out of steam or ways of inflicting more ignominy on Stiller.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Meet the Parents builds brilliantly on interlocking comic situations.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
[Roach] does know how to stage discrete comic moments, taking mildly humorous nightmares and turning them into nicely wrought miniatures.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Meet the Parents doesn't sparkle like Vincente Minnelli's Father of the Bride. But with bubbly adult comedies at such a premium, it goes down like a flute of Champagne, leaving an aftertaste of giggles.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller give the comedy of disaster a nice little workout.
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