Guide Note

Meet The Parents is a 2000 comedy movie about a man who wants to propose to his girlfriend but must ask her parents first.

Fast Facts

1. Release date: October 6, 2000
2. Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson
3. Sequel: Meet The Fockers
4. Running time: 103 minutes
5. Rated PG-13
6. Tag line: "First comes love. Then comes the interrogation."
7. Budget: $55 million
8. Domestic gross: $166 million
9. A second sequel in the series, Little Fockers, is set for release in 2009
10. Spawned a reality television show titled Meet My Folks

Ben Stiller plays Gaylord "Greg" Focker who is head over heels in love with his girlfriend Pam Byrnes, played by Teri Polo. Greg wants to propose to Pam, but knowing she is close with her father, decides to wait until Pam's dad gives him his approval. The couple travel to Pam's parents house for Pam's sister's wedding, which Greg thinks is a good time to talk to her father about the proposal. Things soon change when he meets her father Jack Byrnes, a retired CIA agent played by Robert De Niro. Between a luggage mix-up, spray painting a cat and Jack's lie detector test, no matter how hard Greg tries he is finding it harder and harder to impress Jack.