Meet the Parents (1992 film)
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Meet the Parents is a 1992 American independent comedy film directed by Greg Glienna, who co-wrote it with Mary Ruth Clarke. Glienna also wrote the original songs "Keep Smiling" and "When Philip's The
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Meet the Parents
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Meet the Parents is a 2000 American romantic comedy film directed by Jay Roach, and written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg. It stars Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse who visits his girlfriend Pam
Meet the Parents (1992 film)
…independent film and hired screenwriter Jim Herzfeld to expand the script. The film went through several rewrites, with much of the dark humor removed. A new version of Meet the Parents was filmed and released in October 2000. The 2000 version inspired three movie sequels and two television series. A man and his fiancée driving out to…
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At the insistence of his Christian host, the Jewish Greg agrees to say a prayer to bless the food at the dinner table. Unskilled at this custom, he improvises and recites a part of Godspell. This scene served to show a wide social and cultural gap between Greg and the Christian Byrnes family.
Robert De Niro was cast upon the suggestion of Universal Studios due to critical acclaim of his recent comedy work.
Ben Stiller was cast partly because the director was impressed with his improvisational abilities.