Meet the Parents Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Jay Roach
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
PG-13
Year:
2000
108 min
$164,454,835
Website
3,480 Views


as a sign of weakness.

- OK, l'll leave them in the car.

- No! He'll check there.

- Oh, gosh...

- What...?!

Yeah, the roof

is probably a better idea.

Oh, and...

we're not living together.

- l thought you said you told them.

- Well...

Hi, Daddy! Hi!

- Oh, l missed you so much, Pamcake.

- l missed you too, Popjack.

(Kissing)

Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!

Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!

(Both) Shortstack, shortstack,

coming up!

Pop-pop, pop-pop, pop-pop-pop!

Where's my widdle girl?.

Mommy! My mom!

Oh, you look so beautiful!

(Pam ) So do you! Look at you!

Oh, l'm sorry.

Mom, Dad, this is Greg.

- Hi, l'm Pam's father, Jack Byrnes.

- lt's great to meet you.

- l'm Dina. Welcome to Oyster Bay.

- Thanks.

What you driving, a Ford?

Uh, yeah. lt's a Taurus.

We were gonna get a mid-size,

but l figure, hey,

pulling down decent bucks,

might as well go all out

and pop for the full-size.

True. lnteresting colour.

You pick it?

Oh, no, the guy at the counter. Why?

Well, they say geniuses pick green.

- But you didn't pick it.

- (Dina ) Jack!

(Sniffing)

Oh, yucky!

What smells of old sour milk?

Oh, poor Greg got spit up on

by a baby.

He didn't!

He did, Ma, at Lost Luggage.

The airline lost his bag.

Oh! They didn't!

Yeah, they did.

- What about you, honey?

- No, l carried on.

That's my girl!

lt'll turn up, l'm sure.

And Greg, meanwhile,

anything you need, just ask, huh?

That's right. Mi casa es su casa.

Oh, thanks, Jack. You, too.

Yeah, ha ha!

Hey, Momma, looks great!

Really?

We spruced up for the wedding.

This is so nice!

(Jack) We like it.

(Greg) Beautiful.

Oh, now, Greg,

you have a very unique last name.

And we were curious, er,

how do you pronounce it?

Oh. Just like it's spelled.

F-O-C-K-E-R.

Focker.

Hmm... Focker.

Mm-hm.

- l'll get it, honey.

- Oh, thanks, Mom.

Oh, there he is!

(Pam ) Jinxy!

Come here, baby!

Come to Daddy, Jinxy!

Come on, Jinxy!

Come here. Come to Daddy.

Come on. Oh!

Taught him that in one week.

(Jack) This is Pam's cat, Jinxy.

- Say hello. Wave to Greg.

- Hello, Jinx.

Attaboy!

That took me another week.

- My gosh!

- l didn't know you had a cat.

l left him here

when l moved to Chicago.

Your daddy's best friend!

You won't believe it,

he even taught him to use the potty.

Dad, that's kinda weird.

Why? Now we don't have

to smell kitty litter.

That's right.

How did you teach

the cat to use the toilet?

Easy. l designed a litter box

to put inside the toilet.

Once he got used to it,

l took it away.

Oh! That's... Yeah, makes sense.

But he doesn't like it. Every chance

he gets he tries to squat and bury.

l had to move all my plants.

Plus you got another guy

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Jim Herzfeld

Jim Herzfeld is an American film and television screenwriter who has also done work as a television producer. Herzfeld graduated from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) in 1984. Herzfeld's earliest TV credit is on It's Garry Shandling's Show in 1986. His earliest feature film work was a writing credit on the cult-comedy Tapeheads in 1988. Herzfeld's most successful work was writing the screenplay for the 2000 film Meet the Parents as well as writing the story and screenplay for its 2004 sequel Meet the Fockers. Despite occasional internet information to the contrary, Herzfeld was not a writer on the last of the trilogy, the critically savaged Little Fockers. Herzfeld was also the writer of the canceled Circle 7 Animation version of Toy Story 3. more…

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