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    Meet the Parents (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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    • 1 Randy NewmanA Fool In Love 2:16
    • 2 Randy NewmanPoor Me 1:33
    • 3 Randy NewmanI've Got My Mojo Working 1:57
    • 4 Randy NewmanGive Me a Sign 3:20
    • 5 Randy NewmanMeet the Parents 2:39
    • 6 Randy NewmanCould You Milk Me? 2:39
    • 7 Randy NewmanGreg Loses Jinx 1:48
    • 8 Randy NewmanBurning Down the House 1:56
    • 9 Randy NewmanWrong Cat 1:06
    • 10 Randy NewmanThe Car Race 2:47
    • 11 Randy NewmanBroken Hearted 1:14
    • 12 Randy NewmanPam's Problem 1:50
    • 13 Randy NewmanJack To the Rescue 1:06
    • 14 Randy NewmanTogether Again 1:19
    • 15 Bobby WomackI'm Your Puppet 3:30
    • 16 Lee DorseyYa Ya 2:25
    • 17 Dr. JohnBig Chief 3:25
    • 18 Randy Newman & Susanna HoffsA Fool In Love 2:27

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    " First comes love. Then comes the interrogation."
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    Runtime 1 hr 48 min
    Budget $55 000 000
    Premiere: World $330 444 045 October 6, 2000
    USA $166 244 045
    Other countries $164 200 000
    Box Office – Budget $275 444 045
    Premiere: USA $166 244 045 October 6, 2000
    first day $8 364 800
    first weekend $28 623 300
    rollout 452 days
    Digital: World August 6, 2013
    Parental Advisory Profanity, ...
    • Profanity

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Violence & Gore

      few

    • Sex & Nudity

      few

    Production Companies Universal PicturesDreamworks PicturesTribeca Productions...Nancy Tenenbaum Films
    Also Known As
    La familia de mi novia United States

    Description

    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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    Themes

    Greg Focker is a middle-class Jewish nurse whose social and cultural position is juxtaposed against the Byrnes family of upper-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. With respect to Greg as a Jew and a nurse when compared to the Byrnes and Banks families, a distinct cultural gap is created and subsequently widened. The cultural differences are often highlighted, and Greg repeatedly made aware of them. This serves to achieve comedic effect through character development and has also been commented upon as being indicative of thematic portrayal of Jewish characters' roles in modern film as well as being a prime example of how male nurses are portrayed in media. Speaking about character development in Meet the Parents, director Jay Roach stated that he wanted an opportunity to "do character-driven comedy" and "to create realistic characters, but heighten the comedic situations and predicaments."

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    Critique: 12

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    RogerEbert.com January 1, 2000

    Meet the Parents builds brilliantly on interlocking comic situations.

    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 tod...

    globeandmail.com March 22, 2002

    When the script puts its faith in the audience, allowing us to find the laughs on our own, the film is irresistible, a bright lark. Yet when the wr...

    BBC April 16, 2001

    A five star hoot.

    TIME Magazine August 15, 2008

    Alas, poor Focker. He can’t help himself. And we can’t help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.

    ReelViews January 1, 2000

    Even with Stiller and De Niro, Meet the Parents is an encounter that can be postponed until it’s available on video.

    Village Voice January 1, 2000

    Watching Ben get the girl or be seriously injured trying always has its dry, keening pleasures.

    Common Sense Media December 26, 2010

    Star-driven comedy at times offensive and funny.

    SFGATE January 1, 2000

    Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller give the comedy of disaster a nice little workout.

    TimeOut February 9, 2006

    Astutely observed, subtly played and consistently hilarious…

    Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000

    Passable movie entertainment, but like most future in-laws leaves a feeling of something still desired.

    calendarlive.com January 1, 2000

    Possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since There’s Something About Mary.

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    Quotes

    I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

    You can milk anything with nipples.

    Oh, you’re the best, Jack.

    I’m a patient man. That’s what 19 months in a Vietnamese prison camp will do to you.

    I’m watching you, Focker.

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    Watched

    A pleasant family comedy where De Niro is just a FATHER. Funny and sincere character interactions successfully overshadow the primitiveness of the plot, and Robert is a natural star in a top role here.

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    It’s funny and awkward at the same time, and I think that’s what the creators were going for. The result is such a funny, heartfelt and primitive comedy, which, thanks to the characters, exudes warmth.

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    "Meet the Parents" confirms that comedy is one of the fastest growing genres. And not to say that the light comedy about an unlucky Jewish nurse is bad. It’s just that any developments from one successful comedy quickly migrate to others. And "Acquaintance…" was successful.

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    It seems like a comedy, but on the other hand, everything is going very badly for the hero, which even becomes unpleasant for himself (as if life itself is against him). In the end, of course, everything ends with a happy ending.

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    A wonderful comedy that can be watched over and over again. The film inspires and allows us to forget about everyday worries and enjoy pure and easy humor. As a result, this is a wonderful film that will perfectly lift your spirits and leave a lasting impression.

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    Playing around with hegemonic masculinity

    I re-watched the film to confirm my assessment. I want to say that the film becomes valuable from a historical point of view. After all, pure comedy without impurities died at the moment when humanity forgot how to laugh sincerely. Family values, funny situations and morality. I recommend it.

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    I felt Spanish shame the whole time I watched the movie 🤦‍♀️ the whole plot was like a bad dream. In general, humor for the beginning of the 2000s, surprisingly, was not very vulgar.

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    "How was your evening?" "Good, except for the fact that I desecrated your grandmother’s ashes, found out about your ex-boyfriend, and your father asked me to milk him."

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