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Synopsis
In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend's parents. Greg Focker (Stiller) is completely in love with Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), and views their upcoming trip to her parents' house on Long Island (where her sister is to be married during the weekend) as a perfect opportunity to ask her to marry him. Once Greg is introduced to Pam's parents, however, things stampede steadily downhill. Pam's father, Jack (Robert De Niro), takes an instant and obvious dislike to his daughter's boyfriend, lambasting him for his job as a nurse and generally making Greg painfully aware of the differences between him and Pam's family. Where Greg is grubby, relatively unambitious, and Jewish, Pam comes from a long line of well-mannered, blue-blooded WASPs. Things go from bad to worse in less time than it takes to spin a dreidel, with Greg incurring the wrath of both Pam's father -- who, it turns out, worked for the CIA for 34 years -- and the rest of her family, and almost single-handedly destroying their house and the wedding in the process. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide

Cast

Blythe Danner Dina Byrnes
Robert De Niro Jack Byrnes
Tom McCarthy Bob Banks
Teri Polo Pam Byrnes
James Rebhorn Larry Banks
Ben Stiller Greg Focker
Thomas McCarthy Bob Banks
Owen Wilson Kevin Rawley
Jon Abrahams Denny Byrnes
Kali Rocha Flight Attendant
Phyllis George Linda Banks
Nicole DeHuff Debbie Byrnes

Production Crew

Jeannette Browning ADR Recordist
John Kasarda Art Director
Emo Philips Associate Producer
Greg Glienna Associate Producer
Jim Vincent Associate Producer
Ellen Chenoweth Casting
Peter James Cinematographer
Amy Sayres Co-producer
Shauna Weinberg Co-producer
Randy Newman Composer (Music Score)
Daniel Orlandi Costume Designer
Jay Roach Director
Jon Poll Editor
Richard Cowan First Assistant Director
Randall Poster Musical Direction/Supervision
Jane Rosenthal Producer
Jay Roach Producer
Nancy Tenenbaum Producer
Robert De Niro Producer
Rusty Smith Production Designer
Greg Glienna Screen Story
Mary Ruth Clarke Screen Story
Jim Herzfeld Screenwriter
John Hamburg Screenwriter
Marco Schnabel Second Unit Director
Tom Houghton Second Unit Director Of Photography
Karin Wiesel Set Decorator
Karin Wiesel Set Designer
Tod A. Maitland Sound/Sound Designer
George Anderson Supervising Sound Editor
Year: 2000
Runtime: 108
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: PG13
for sexual content, drug references and language
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy

Color type
Deluxe

Sound
Dolby Digital/SDDS/DTS

Produced by
DreamWorks
Universal

Release
October 06, 2000 (USA)
by DreamWorks