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Meet the Fockers (2004)

Meet the Fockers poster
Directed by
Jay Roach
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 5,208 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Greg Focker and his fiancée Pam bring their parents together for the first time. The two sets of in-laws clash over their very different ways of living and raising their children.

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What happens

Meet the Fockers is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Jay Roach. The second in the Meet the Parents film series, it features Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, and Teri Polo reprising their roles from Meet the Parents, with Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. The film sees Greg Focker and his fiancée Pam introduce their respective parents to each other, creating tension over their contrasting lifestyles. Meet the Fockers was released on December 22, 2004, in the United States by Universal Pictures, with DreamWorks Pictures releasing in other territories. It received mixed reviews, and was a box-office success, grossing $522.7 million against an $80 million budget and becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2004. A further sequel, Little Fockers, followed in 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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