Meet the Parents
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Directed by | Jay Roach |
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Cinematography | Peter James |
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Music by | Randy Newman |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $55 million |
Box office | $330.4 million |
Meet the Parents is a 2000 American romantic 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). In addition, Teri Polo stars as Pam Byrnes (Greg Focker's girlfriend) while Owen Wilson stars as Kevin Rawley (Pam Byrnes' ex-boyfriend).
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 film's 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.[1] 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.
Plot
Greg Focker, a Jewish American nurse living in Chicago, intends to propose to his girlfriend, Pam Byrnes. Greg chooses to obtain the blessing of Pam's father at the wedding of Pam's sister, Debbie, at their parents' house on Long Island, and then propose to her in front of her family. This plan is put on hold when the airline company loses his luggage, which contains the engagement ring.
At the Byrnes's house, Greg meets Pam's father Jack, mother Dina, and beloved cat Jinx. Despite maintaining a friendly demeanor towards Greg, Jack is immediately suspicious of him and is critical of his choice of career as a nurse. Greg gifts Jack an extremely rare flower, but Jack does not recognize it, and he becomes even more uncomfortable after he receives an impromptu lie detector test from Jack. Pam explains that Jack's profession as a florist is a cover, and he is actually a retired CIA operative who interrogated double agents.
Meeting the rest of Pam's family and friends, including Debbie's future in-laws, Greg still feels like an outsider. He also becomes insecure about his relationship with Pam when he learns she was previously engaged, and that her ex-fiancé Kevin is amiable, handsome, wealthy, and still on friendly terms with Pam, and is also acting as the Best Man in Debbie's wedding. Despite efforts to impress her family, Greg's inadvertent actions make him an easy target for ridicule. Greg unintentionally gives Debbie a broken nose and a black eye during a pool volleyball game, floods the backyard with sewage, breaks an urn containing the ashes of Jack's mother, and sets the wedding altar on fire. Jack suspects Greg is a
Greg loses Jinx and replaces him with a near-identical stray, whose tail he spray-paints and who makes a mess of the house, including destroying Debbie's wedding dress. Greg's deception is exposed when a neighbor finds the real Jinx, and the entire Byrnes family, including Pam, agrees that Greg should leave Long Island, while Jack accuses Greg of lying about taking the Medical College Admission Test because his CIA contacts could not find any record of a Gregory Focker. Greg retaliates by revealing he has seen Jack engaging in secret meetings, receiving passports, and speaking in Thai, and deduces that Jack has taken on a new CIA mission, only for Jack to angrily reveal that he was arranging a surprise honeymoon in Thailand for Debbie and her fiancé Bob.
A devastated Greg drives to the airport to return to Chicago, but is detained by airport security for refusing to again check his luggage, which is too large for carry-on. Back at the Byrnes's house, Pam shows her parents copies of Greg's Medical College Admission Test transcript which his parents faxed her; the CIA found no record of Greg because his first name is Gaylord, not Gregory. Jack still believes that Greg is an unsuitable husband for Pam, but Dina lectures him over his consistent disapproval of any man Pam brings home. After hearing Pam make a heartfelt phone call to Greg, apologizing for not sticking up for him, Jack realizes that Pam truly loves Greg. He rushes to the airport and convinces security to release Greg. The two clear the air with each other, with Greg citing his fear of living up to Jack’s unattainable standards. After ensuring Greg’s loyalty and devotion to Pam, Jack finally accepts Greg, and asks him to be his son-in-law.
After returning to the Byrnes home, Greg proposes to Pam, as Jack and Dina listen in from their bedroom, agreeing that they should now meet Greg's parents. After Debbie's wedding, Jack views footage of Greg recorded by hidden cameras that he had placed around the house, in which Greg vents his frustrations with Jack, and also exposes Denny as a marijuana user.
Cast
- veteranwho is overprotective of his family, slightly paranoid, and takes an instant dislike towards Greg
- Ben Stiller as Gaylord "Greg" Focker, a nurse and Pam's boyfriend, who seeks to impress her parents
- Teri Polo as Pam Byrnes, a 2nd-grade teacher, who is Greg's girlfriend and Jack and Dina's older daughter
- Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes, Jack's wife and Pam's mother
- Nicole DeHuff as Debbie Byrnes, the younger sister of Pam, Jack and Dina's younger daughter and Bob's fiancée
- Jon Abrahams as Denny Byrnes, brother of Pam and Debbie, and Jack and Dina's youngest child
- Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley, the wealthy stock investor/carpenter ex-fiancé of Pam
- James Rebhorn as Larry Banks, Bob's father and a close friend of Jack, who is a plastic surgeon
- Thomas McCarthy as Bob Banks, Larry and Linda's son, a doctor and Debbie's fiancé
- Phyllis George as Linda Banks, Larry's wife and Bob's mother
- Mark Hammer as Patient in the Hospital
Themes
"But I was trying to have in a kind of forties-farce way, the opportunity to create realistic characters, but heighten the comedic situations and predicaments a bit so that they're still very funny and there is still some very broad humor, but you would connect to the characters and completely identify with Ben Stiller's anxiety about not only meeting Robert De Niro's character and all, but the kind of characters from his past that come with him."
Jay Roach[2]
Greg Focker is a middle-class Jewish nurse whose social and cultural position is juxtaposed against the Byrnes family of upper-middle class
Vincent Brook observes mainstream Hollywood cinema's tendency since the 1990s of incorporating Jewish
Anne Bower writes about Jewish characters at mealtime as part of the broader movement she believes started in the 1960s where filmmakers started producing work that explored the "Jewish self-definition."
Based on common misconceptions and stereotypes about men in nursing, Greg's profession is repeatedly brought up by Jack in a negative context and the character of Greg Focker has come to be one of the best known film portrayals of a male nurse.[7] Even though men dominated the profession in earlier times,[9] there has been a feminization of the nursing profession over the course of the last century which has caused men in nursing to often be portrayed as misfits by the media.[10] A common stereotype is that of a man who accepts a career in nursing as an unfortunate secondary career choice, either failing to become a physician or still trying to become one. Such stereotyping is due to a presumption that a man would prefer to be a physician but is unable to become one due to lack of intelligence or non-masculine attributes. Jack is often seen openly criticizing Greg's career choice per his perception of nursing being an effeminate profession. In their book Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities authors Chad O'Lynn and Russell Tranbarger present this as an example of a negative portrayal.[11] Commenting on the same issue but disagreeing, Barbara Cherry in her book Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management called the portrayal of Greg as a nurse "one of the most positive film portrayals of men who are nurses"[12] and commented that Greg "humorously addresses and rises above the worst of all stereotypes that are endured by men in this profession."[12] Sandy and Harry Summers in the book Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk postulate that Greg's character, although intelligent and firm in his defense of his profession, "might have done more to rebut the stereotypes"[7] while also reporting that "some men in nursing"[7] expressed their opinions that it would have been better to not present the stereotypes at all.[7]
Production
Background
The film is a remake of a 1992 independent film of the same name.[13][14][15][16] Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke wrote the original story and screenplay. Glienna also directed and starred in the 76-minute film which was filmed on 16 mm film in 1991 and released the following year.[17][18][19][20] The 1992 film also marked one of only several film roles played by comedian Emo Philips which he also helped produce.[14][15][19][21] Film producer Elliot Grove, founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards, listed the original Meet the Parents on his personal Top Ten list of favorite films where he called it "much funnier and tighter than the Hollywood version".[22] The 1992 film was a featured entry in the 1995 Raindance Film Festival.
Producer Nancy Tenenbaum acquired the rights to the 1992 film.
Writing
"...I think the film is fantastic, and I can't imagine a screenwriter being any happier with a film unless he directs it himself. Which, in this case, would've been a disaster since Jay is a brilliant director..."
Jim Herzfeld[25]
Universal approached screenwriter
The drafts of the script were written by Herzfeld and, once De Niro and Stiller were confirmed as stars, John Hamburg was brought on board "to help fit the script to their verbal styles."[23] Due to changes in directorial and acting line-ups after the early drafts of the script were written, Hamburg kept adjusting and re-writing the script well after production had already begun.[27][28]
Casting
Upon the suggestion of Universal Studios, Roach cast De Niro in the role of Jack Byrnes due to critical acclaim of his recent comedy work in films such as
Explaining how Ben Stiller came to be cast in the role of Greg, Roach states: "I saw Meet the Parents as an anxiety dream, and in my view nobody plays that kind of material better than Ben."
The consideration to play the character of Pam Byrnes, Greg's girlfriend who acts as a mediator between Greg and the Byrnes family, especially her father, Jack, was initially given to British actress Naomi Watts. She ultimately lost the role to Teri Polo because the filmmakers "didn't think [Watts] was sexy enough".[31][32]
Other characters in the film were played by Blythe Danner (as Dina Byrnes, Jack's wife and Pam's mother), Owen Wilson (as Kevin Rawley, Pam's ex-fiancée), Nicole DeHuff (as Debbie Byrnes, Pam's sister), Jon Abrahams (as Denny Byrnes, the youngest child of Jack and Dina Byrnes), Thomas McCarthy (as Bob Banks, Debbie's fiancé), and James Rebhorn (as Larry Banks, Bob Banks' father and a close friend of Jack's).[33] Phyllis George, who is a former Miss Texas and Miss America pageant winner and has appeared on numerous television programs as a guest and a host, made her acting debut as Linda Banks, Larry's wife and Bob's mother.[34]
The role of Jinx the cat was played by two five-year-old
Rating
Greg Glienna did not come up with the surname Focker; Greg's character in the original film did not have a last name. The name was written into the script after Jim Carrey came up with the idea for the Focker surname during a creative session held before he abandoned the project.
Release
Theatrical run
Meet the Parents had its theatrical release in United States and Canada on October 6, 2000. Distributed domestically by Universal Studios, it had an advertising budget of
Twenty-five weeks after its opening day in North America, Meet the Parents completed its theatrical run on March 29, 2001, grossing $166.2 million in the United States and a total of $330.4 million worldwide,[54] making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year both domestically[55] and worldwide.[56]
Home media
The film was released on VHS and DVD on March 6, 2001.[57] The DVD sales for it were successful, taking in over $200 million for 2001.[58] Billboard magazine listed it as having the highest video sales for all weeks from March 31 up to and including April 21,[59][60][61][62] being the top-selling DVD for the weeks of March 24 and March 31,[59][63] and being the top-rented video for the weeks of April 7 and April 14.[60][61] Within its first week of release, it made $4.3 million in DVD rentals, beating the previous record held by What Lies Beneath. Making $21.4 million, the film had the second-highest home video rentals at the time, after The Sixth Sense.[64]
The DVD release provides only the
The single-disc "Collector's Edition" contains two audio commentaries, one a light-hearted and humorous discussion between Roach, Stiller, De Niro, and producer Jane Rosenthal and the other a more formal technical commentary on the film-making aspects by the director and editor
Soundtrack
The original motion picture soundtrack for the film was released on September 26, 2000 on the
Reception
Critical reception
"Making a funny but not mean, smart but not smug, broad but not lazy ensemble comedy about contemporary people in a realistic setting is hard. For which Meet the Parents is to be commended — it's a bouncy, loose-limbed, families-do-the-darnedest-things sitcom that elicits ungrudging laughs without invoking water boys, pet detectives, or Klumps."
Lisa Schwarzbaum[73]
Meet the Parents received a generally positive response from film critics, being commended on the subtlety of its humor
However, Internet film critic James Berardinelli, in spite of awarding it two-and-a-half stars out of four, gave the film a somewhat scathing review. On his website, Berardinelli wrote that "Meet the Parents is put together like a TV sit-com," that Roach "strings together a series of hit-and-miss lowbrow gags with little care for whether any of the connecting material is coherent, interesting, or enjoyable (in most cases, it's none of those three)" and concluding that "even with Stiller and De Niro, Meet the Parents is an encounter that can be postponed until it's available on video."[89] Jeff Vice of the Deseret News, another detractor of the film, proclaimed Meet the Parents "only erratically funny" and accused Roach of taking "the cheap way out with a series of unfunny jokes."[90] Critic Peter Bradshaw's review of it in The Guardian concludes that "It is somehow less than the sum of its parts. It strains to come to life, but never quite makes it."[91] After it was released on home media, DVD reviewer and Rolling Stone magazine contributor Douglas Pratt in his book Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! stated that "perhaps in the crowded theater the film is hysterical, but in the quieter venue of home video, it just seems sadistic, and as the humor evaporates, the holes in the plot become clearer."[65]
Accolades
Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
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Academy Awards[92] | Best Original Song | "A Fool in Love" Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman |
Nominated |
American Comedy Awards | Funniest Motion Picture | Nominated | |
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Robert De Niro | Nominated | |
Ben Stiller | Won | ||
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Top Box Office Films | Randy Newman | Won |
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards[93] | Favorite Actor – Comedy/Romance | Robert De Niro | Nominated |
Ben Stiller | Nominated | ||
Favorite Supporting Actor – Comedy | Owen Wilson | Nominated | |
Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy | Blythe Danner | Nominated | |
Favorite Female – Newcomer | Teri Polo | Nominated | |
Bogey Awards | Bogey Award | Won | |
Golden Globe Awards[94] | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Robert De Niro | Nominated |
Golden Screen Awards | Golden Screen | Won | |
Golden Trailer Awards | Best Comedy | Nominated | |
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards[95] | Best Original Song | "Meet the Parents" Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman |
Nominated |
MTV Movie Awards | Best Comedic Performance | Ben Stiller | Won |
Best On-Screen Team | Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller | Nominated | |
Best Line | "Are You a Pothead, Focker?" – Robert De Niro | Won | |
People's Choice Awards | Favorite Comedy Motion Picture | Won | |
Satellite Awards[96] | Best Original Song | "A Fool in Love" Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman |
Nominated |
Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie – Comedy | Nominated | |
Choice Movie – Actor | Ben Stiller | Nominated |
Others
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
- 2005: AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes:
- Jack Byrnes: "I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?" – Nominated[97]
Influence
The success of the film was initially responsible for a 2002
In 2004, Meet the Fockers was released as a sequel to the film.[101][102] Directed again by Jay Roach with a screenplay by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, it chronicles the events that take place when the Byrnes family meets Bernie and Roz Focker, Greg's parents, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. The producers intended for them to be the opposite of the Byrneses' conservative, upper class, WASPy demeanor; to that effect, producer Jane Rosenthal explains that "Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand were our dream team."[103] The sequel proved to be another financial success grossing $280 million domestically and $516 million worldwide,[104] outperforming Meet the Parents by a large margin and finishing as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004.[105]
In February 2007, Universal Studios announced that they would be making a second sequel in the franchise, titled Little Fockers.[106][107][108] It was to be directed by Roach with the screenplay written by Larry Stuckey, Roach's former assistant.[106][108] The sequel brings back De Niro, Stiller, Polo, Danner, Hoffman, and Streisand.[106][108] Roach was later replaced as director of the third film by Paul Weitz. Little Fockers was released in 2010 and grossed $148.4 million domestically and $310.7 million worldwide.
On July 18, 2005, a regularly scheduled
See also
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Further reading
- Pratt, Douglas (June 2004). "Meet the Parents (DreamWorks, 21133)". Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!. Harbor Electronic Publishing. p. 783. ISBN 1-932916-00-8.
- Press, Skip (2004). "The Chill of Reality". The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywood. Barns & Noble Books. p. 170. ISBN 0-7607-6110-8.
- Laufenberg, Norbert (2005). "Chapter Seven G". Entertainment Celebrities. Trafford Publishing. p. 253. ISBN 1-4120-5335-8.
- Sandler, Corey (2007). "Animal Planet Live!". Econoguide Walt Disney World Resort Universal Orlando, 5th Edition. Globe Pequot. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-7627-4169-4.
- Kaufman, Anthony (2002). "Patricia Thomson/1996". Steven Soderbergh: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. p. 92. ISBN 1-57806-428-7.
- Billboard (March 2001a). "Top Videos". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 12. p. 60.
- Billboard (March 2001b). "Top Videos". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 13. p. 73.
- Billboard (April 2001c). "Top Videos". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 14. p. 95.
- Billboard (April 2001d). "Top Videos". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 15. p. 64.
- Billboard (April 2001e). "Top Videos". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 16. p. 72.
- Brook, Vincent (2006). "Jews on the Edge". You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture. Rutgers University Press. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-0-8135-3844-0.
- Bower, Anne (2004). "The Dinner Table". Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film. Routledge. pp. 97–99. ISBN 0-415-97110-1.
- O'Lynn, Chad; Tranbarger, Russell (2007). Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities. Springer Publishing. pp. 6–257. ISBN 978-0-8261-0221-8.
- Cherry, Barbara (2005). "The Contemporary Image of Professional Nursing". Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management. Elsevier. p. 34. ISBN 0-323-02968-X.
- Wasko, Janet (2003). "Advertising". How Hollywood Works. SAGE. p. 196. ISBN 0-7619-6813-X.
- Summers, Sandy; Summers, Harry (2009). "Who Wants Yesterday's Girl?". Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk. Kaplan. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-1-4277-9845-9.
External links
- Official website (Archived)
- Meet the Parents at IMDb
- Meet the Parents at the TCM Movie Database
- Meet the Parents at AllMovie
- Meet the Parents at Rotten Tomatoes
- Meet the Parents at Metacritic
- Meet the Parents at Box Office Mojo