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Meet the Parents (2000)

 -  Comedy | Romance  -  6 October 2000 (USA)
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Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.

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A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

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male nurse | nurse | cia | cat | mishap | See more »

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Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug references and language | See all certifications »

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6 October 2000 (USA)  »

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$55,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£2,261,785 (UK) (15 December 2000)

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ESP 2,256,312,819 (Spain) (29 June 2001)
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Trivia

Julia Stiles auditioned for the part of Pam, but dropped out due to filming 10 Things I Hate About You. See more »

Goofs

Debbie Byrnes calls her sister, Pam, to tell her that she has just gotten engaged and is going to be married in two weeks. Since the wedding is taking place at home, while this is short notice, it's possible it could have been arranged so quickly. Jack presumably has some experience in pulling together complex operations. See more »

Quotes

Jack Byrnes: You tried to milk him, didn't you you sick son of a bitch?
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Crazy Credits

During the opening logos, the singers in the theme music are lyrically commenting "Look at the light coming out of the earth" during the Universal logo, and "Look at the boy sitting on the moon" during the Dreamworks logo. See more »

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"Big Chief"
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Oh dear lord....
3 October 2002 | by (Seville, Spain) – See all my reviews

At first glance, Meet the Parents is a funny comedy.... Worth the six or seven bucks. But, upon further reflection and intensive reviewing, this movie is a comedic classic.

How about the prayer scene? Brilliant.

10 stars. The next generations Caddyshack
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