Meet the Parents (2000)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 108m
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Robert de Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo
Synopsis:
A male nurse about to propose to his primary school teacher sweetheart is persuaded by his future brother-in-law's example and the impending family reunion to adopt the more traditional procedure of wooing his father-in-law first.
Review:
Starring Norman Wisdom or Ian Carmichael this would be another one of those excruciating catalogues of quid pro quos and social faux pas, where forgiveness comes about through some equally unlikely turnabout or eleventh-hour dramatic contrivance. Well it is pretty much that, actually, except that the disasters have a comprehensiveness and sense of spectacle only American cinema would be brash enough to assay, and that De Niro's humourless right-wing patriarch is watchable.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 108m
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Robert de Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo
Synopsis:
A male nurse about to propose to his primary school teacher sweetheart is persuaded by his future brother-in-law's example and the impending family reunion to adopt the more traditional procedure of wooing his father-in-law first.
Review:
Starring Norman Wisdom or Ian Carmichael this would be another one of those excruciating catalogues of quid pro quos and social faux pas, where forgiveness comes about through some equally unlikely turnabout or eleventh-hour dramatic contrivance. Well it is pretty much that, actually, except that the disasters have a comprehensiveness and sense of spectacle only American cinema would be brash enough to assay, and that De Niro's humourless right-wing patriarch is watchable.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 108m
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Robert de Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo
Synopsis:
A male nurse about to propose to his primary school teacher sweetheart is persuaded by his future brother-in-law's example and the impending family reunion to adopt the more traditional procedure of wooing his father-in-law first.
Review:
Starring Norman Wisdom or Ian Carmichael this would be another one of those excruciating catalogues of quid pro quos and social faux pas, where forgiveness comes about through some equally unlikely turnabout or eleventh-hour dramatic contrivance. Well it is pretty much that, actually, except that the disasters have a comprehensiveness and sense of spectacle only American cinema would be brash enough to assay, and that De Niro's humourless right-wing patriarch is watchable.