Meet the Parents (1992)
- Directed by
- Greg Glienna
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young man visits his fiancee's parents for the first time. He accidentally causes a series of mishaps that break apart her family.
low-budgetawkwardgoofylightheartedquirkyamateurishfast-pacedaccident-prone
What happens
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" (performed by Walter Tabayoyong) and "When Philip's There" (performed by Clarke), and stars as protagonist Greg, a young man who sets off a series of accidents while meeting his fiancée's parents and causes her family to fall apart. Emo Philips served as an associate producer, wrote the film title's theme song (performed by Mary Louise Herrold), and cameos as a video store employee. Filmed on an approximately $30,000-$35,000 budget and shot in and around Chicago in 1991, Meet the Parents was not widely distributed and did not earn a large box-office profit in its limited release. Meet the Parents played art house theaters in the USA and England, until it was seen by director Steven Soderbergh, who thought it should be remade with a bigger budget and seen by a wider audience. Several years after its release, Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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