Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 10/06/2000(USA)
Release Date: 04/12/2009
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
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 Marx, All Movie Guide
;)
