B00049QLTQ

025192546020

2000

2000-10-06

108

1h 48min

Nominated for 1 Oscar, 7 wins & 15 nominations total

Jay Roach

Greg Glienna, Mary Ruth Clarke, Jim Herzfeld

Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo

Robert De Niro, Greg Glienna, Emo Philips, Jay Roach, Shauna Robertson, Jane Rosenthal, Amy Sayres, Nancy Tenenbaum, Jim Vincent

Randy Newman

Peter James

Greg Hayden, Jon Poll

Ellen Chenoweth

Rusty Smith

John Kasarda

Karin Wiesel Holmes

Daniel Orlandi

Michal Bigger, Victor DeNicola, Ilona Herman, Linda Melo, Rita Ogden, Jackie Payne, John Quaglia, Carla White

Lisa Rodgers, Lenny Vullo, Ron Lynch

Richard Cowan, Amy Lauritsen, Deanna Leslie, Dominick Scarola, Marco Schnabel, Jennifer Truelove

Tommy Allen, Eric Cheripka, Ann Edgeworth, Jason Farrar, Chris Ferraro, Gerard J. Furey, Judy Gurr, John R. Johnston, Hyun-joo Kim, Steven E. Lawler, Gary Levitsky, Alan Muzeni, Chris T. Nelson, Ken Nelson, Richard Nelson, Raymond C. Polak, William Riley, Jeffrey Rollins, Amy Safhay, Adam Scher, Aleta Shaffer, David Stein, Christina Tonkin Noble, Robert Topol, M. Tony Trotta, Alyson Wellins, Mike Bundlie, Paul Camarro, John Davis, Gerard V. Engrassia, Daniel Geary, Erik Lundell, Louis J. Porzio, Grant Shaffer, Stephen Siersema, Nell Stifel, Jonathan Tessler, Ginny Walsh, Joan Winters

George H. Anderson, David Boulton, Jeannette Browning, Joe DeAngelis, Dennis Drummond, Kim Drummond, Charlie Essers, David Giammarco, Galen Goodpaster, Frank Graziadei, Michael Haight, Doc Kane, Jonathan Klein, Andy Koyama, Goro Koyama, Tod A. Maitland, Andy Malcolm, Ron Malligers, Cindy Marty, Bill Meadows, James Morioka, Joe Schiff, Michael Scott, Renee Tondelli, Jonathan Wales, Don White, Paul J. Zydel, Cornelia Mariana Gavrilescu, Linda Lew, Philip Rogers, Jerome R. Vitucci, Rebecca Wright

J.C. Brotherhood, Jim Lillis, Deed Rossiter, Byron K. Lovelace

David D. Johnson, Mark Sawicki

G.A. Aguilar, Bill Anagnos, Blaise Corrigan, Douglas Crosby, Peter Epstein, Tony Guida, Stephen A. Pope, Ron Michaels

Bill Almeida, Steven Blaho, Kenny Burke, Ronald Burke, Michael Cambria, Caesar S. Carnevale, Phillip V. Caruso, Andrew Casey, Andrew Cheung, Ray Collins, Ralph G. Crowley, James Edmiston, Morris Flam, Kevin Flynn, Jamie Gallagher, Shaun Gilbert, John Gilgar, Phil Gries, Gary Hildebrand, Tom Houghton, Nils Johnson, Amy Kupferberg, Francis Leach, Todd Lichtenstein, Clay Liversidge, Bruce MacCallum, Bobby Mancuso, Kevin McKenna, Scot A. Nederman-Paul, John Panuccio, Lance E. Phox, Robert T. Prate, Tom Prate, Michael R. Rudolph, Tom Shinn, Eric Swanek, Phil Testa, Mark van Rossen, Joshua Wingard, Richard Yacuk, Don Zappia, Nick Cupkovic, William MacGhee, Jason A. Micallef

Susie Farris, Grant Wilfley, Amanda Koblin

Joanna Brett, David Davenport, Patricia Eiben, John Glaser, Donna Maloney, Marcie Olivi, Benjamin Wilson, Jeff Caron

Kent Blocher, Gary Burritt, Curtis Croeni, Christopher Marcoux, Dennis McNeill, Carrie Puchkoff, Elizabeth Schmidt, Kevin Du Toit

Brian Cantaldi, Carey DePalma, Jeff Flach, Annie Kuronyi, Edmund Nardone, Daniel Riccio Jr., Brett Botula, Robin F. Samson, Mimi Turner

Bruno Coon, Mark Cross, Wade Culbreath, Michael Danziger, Don Davis, Sandy DeCrescent, Jim Dunbar, Brenda Heins, Luana Jackman, Randy Newman, Randall Poster, Jonathan Sacks, Frank Wolf, Tom Boyd, Tom Brown, Jim Hoffman, John Rodd, Sally Stevens, James Thatcher

Eva Z. Cabrera

Rocco Curatolo, Mo Fitzgerald, Kevin Harrington, Herb Lieberz, Thomas McGoldrick, Edward O'Donnell, David Conelli

Natalie Alexander, Newell Alexander, Julie Arenal, Valentina Aulisi, Tamara Bally, Dawn Barkan, Cynthia Bauer, Milton Bearden, Brian Byers, Mitch Carter, Robin Chambers, Robert Clotworthy, David Cowgill, Wendy Cutler, Juliet D'Annibale, Ike Eisenmann, Orin Faison, Michael Ferrara, Elisa Gabrielli, Steve Ginsburg, Edith Hagigi, Tony Hernandez, Bridget Hoffman, Jenny Kane, Kate Kelly, Elyse Klaits, Julie Kuehndorf, Dirk Q. Long, Christina MacGregor, Gina Marcheschi, James Maull, Ryan McCormick, Tracey G. Mitchel, Solange Monnier, Scott Michael Murray, Jennifer Nickson, Greg Outcalt, Judy Pursley, Paul Roeder, Bethann Schebece, Robert Scott Schweitzer, Reuben Seid, Susan Silas, Andre Sulmers, Brenda Ventura, Saskia Saffron Viner, Laura A. Wheeler, Maria Williams, Joseph Barry, Mark Ross Edrys, Johnny Egan, Krista Fico, Jay Geller, Mike Nguyen Le, Jeff Lomaglio, Patrick Pinney, Daisy Schwartz, Ben Selkow

Comedy, Romance

Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Nancy Tenenbaum Films

USA

English, Thai, Spanish, Hebrew, French

PG-13

7

333991

73

Meet the Parents is a 2000 American 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 as Jack Byrnes and Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes). Teri Polo as Pam Byrnes and Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley also star.

The film is a remake of a 1992 film of the same name directed by Greg Glienna and produced by Jim Vincent. Glienna-who also played the original one s main protagonist-and Mary Ruth Clarke cowrote the screenplay. Universal Pictures purchased the rights to Glienna s film with the intent of creating a new version. Jim Herzfeld expanded the original script but development was halted for some time. Jay Roach read the expanded script and expressed his desire to direct it but Universal declined him. At that time, Steven Spielberg was interested in doing so while Jim Carrey was interested in playing the lead role. The studio only offered the film to Roach once Spielberg and Carrey left the project.

Released in the United States and Canada on October 6, 2000 and distributed by Universal Pictures, the film earned back its initial budget of $55 million in only 11 days. It went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 2000, earning over $165 million in North America and over $330 million worldwide. It was well received by film critics and viewers alike, winning several awards and earning additional nominations. Ben Stiller won two comedy awards for his performance and the film was chosen as the Favorite Comedy Motion Picture at the 2001 People s Choice Awards. The success of the film inspired two sequels, namely Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers released in 2004 and 2010, respectively. It also inspired a reality television show titled Meet My Folks and a sitcom titled In-Laws, both of which debuted on NBC in 2002.

$55,000,000 (estimated)

$28,623,300

$166,244,045

$330,444,045

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