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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 03/06/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 48 mins Studio: Universal Studios Total Copies: 115 Genres: Comedy, Farce, Domestic Comedy See Also: Meet the Parents [Widescreen] [Special Edition], Meet the Parents [Fullscreen] [Special Edition], Meet the Parents [HD DVD], Meet the Parents, Meet the Parents [Widescreen] [Bonus Edition] [With Mamma Mia! Picture Frame], Meet the Parents [Fullscreen] [Bonus Edition] [With Mamma Mia! Picture Frame], Meet the Parents [Widescreen] [Collector's Edition], Meet the Parents [Widescreen] [Collector's Edition] [Holiday Packaging]

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

Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker
Blythe Danner - Dina Byrnes
Teri Polo - Pam Byrnes
James Rebhorn - Larry Banks

Dreamworks wisely focuses on the comedy in the Meet the Parents DVD package. The ten minutes of outtakes match the movie's silly, slapstick energy, with some unexpected goofy moments of Robert De Niro laughing at himself. The disc offers two audio commentaries. The first discussion between director Jay Roach, actors Ben Stiller and De Niro, and producer Jane Rosenthal mixes personal recollections of the filming with general joking. Not surprisingly, De Niro stays tight-lipped, even when prodded by the other participants, while Stiller happily shares every element of his experience, even the scene where he almost threw up from smoking a cigarette. The second audio track with director Roach, who also helmed Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, focuses on the technical aspects of creating comedy, from the need for short scenes to using actors' improvised business. The "Deleted Scenes" section only has five minutes of less satisfying material, and the featurette about the making of the movie contains the usual interviews with the actors and director complimenting one another. ~ Marina Chavez, All Movie Guide