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Meet the Parents (2000)

Directed by:
Jay Roach
COUNTRY
USA
GENRE
Comedy
NORWEGIAN TITLE
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RUNNING TIME
108 minutter
Produced by:
Robert De Niro
Jay Roach
Jane Rosenthal
Nancy Tenenbaum
Written by:
Jim Herzfeld
John Hamburg


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Jack Byrnes Robert De Niro
Greg Focker Ben Stiller ½
Pam Byrnes Teri Polo
Dina Byrnes Blythe Danner 
Kevin Rawley Owen Wilson
Dr. Larry Banks James Rebhorn

 

Review

Meet the Parents is a noisy and exhausting comedy about highly familiar and quite interesting material: the first encounter with your in-laws. It is a movie with a considerable amount of good points, and Robert De Niro is inspired and well-cast in the lead, but despite a number of laughs and a charming cast, Jay Roach's fast-paced directing proves too insensitive and brutish; he'll probably wear you out long before the end.

Copyright © 25.9.2004 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang [HAVE YOUR SAY]