Meet the Parents Page #3

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
3,462 Views


in the house to leave the seat up.

He can't lift the seat. He lacks

the strength and opposable thumbs.

Ah, right. Opposable...

Didn't think about that.

Jinx is a house cat. He can't go out.

He lacks survival skills.

lt's just one of those things.

l don't think Greg will

be playing with Jinxy. He hates cats.

Pam, l don't hate cats.

l don't... l just happen

to be more of a dog lover.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, it's OK if you hate cats, Greg.

l don't. l don't hate cats...at all.

That's OK. Just be honest about it.

There's some things l hate.

l'm being honest, really. Like what?

Why don't we let the kids freshen up?

Greg, we'll get you something

to wear from Jack's closet.

OK.

- Oh, honey.

- Yeah?

l'm so happy you're home, sweetheart.

Me, too, Daddy.

Hey, listen, be nice to this one, OK?

l kinda like him.

OK, l'll try.

Thank you.

Shirt fit OK, Greg?

Fantastic. Thanks, Jack.

Good. Tom Collins coming up.

l wish you hadn't said

that l hate cats.

You do hate cats.

But you didn't have to say

right when we met.

l'm sorry. lt just slipped out.

Get your red hot pu-pus!

My goodness! What is that?

Oh, that's just...

a little something from me.

Go ahead, open it up.

Oh, look, honey.

Greg brought us a present!

Oh, isn't that nice?

Look at this. lt's a flower pot...

with the dirt in it.

Mm.

Actually, the real gift

is what's planted in the soil.

The bulb of a Jerusalem Tulip.

Which, l was told,

is one of the rarest and most

beautiful flowers in existence.

Oh, right, right.

Uh, the Jerusalem.

From the Jerusalis tulipizius genus,

yes, yes.

Anyway, the guy said

with regular watering

it should bloom in six months.

Well, we'll look forward to that.

(Pam clears throat)

So, uh, Greg, how's your job?

Um, good, Pam. Thanks for asking.

l recently got transferred to triage.

ls that better than a nurse?

No, Mom, triage is a unit of the ER.

That's where all the top nurses work.

- Well...

- No. They do.

Not many men in your profession.

No, Jack. Not traditionally.

Mm-hm.

Pam, did you know that your father

started his own business?

Really? Dad, that's great!

Oh, wow!

Yes, l thought with my experience,

why let retirement stop me?

l really admire that.

So what is it? What's...?

What's the new venture?

Oh, let me ask you a question, Greg.

Let's say you have kids and you wanna

get out of the house, you know?

So you hire a baby-sitter,

someone you think you can trust.

References, experience -

all check out fine.

But, how do you know for certain

that your loved ones

are safe with this stranger?

l mean, can you ever really trust

another human being, Greg?

Sure. l think so.

No. The answer is you cannot.

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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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