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Meet the Fockers (sometimes known as Meet the Parents 2) is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Jay Roach, and the sequel to the 2000 film, Meet the Parents. The film stars Robert De Niro (also one of the film's producers), Ben Stiller , Dustin Hoffman , Barbra Streisand , Blythe Danner , and Teri Polo .
Before the remake in 2000, Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke cowrote the original independent film, Meet the Parents, in 1992.Glienna also directed the film, wrote two original songs, and starred as protagonist Greg: a Chicago advertising agent who travels with his fiancée Pam Burns to meet her parents, Irv and Kay, for a weekend but sets off a series of accidents and causes the family to ...
Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach.It chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless nurse (Ben Stiller as Greg Focker) while visiting his girlfriend's parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner as Jack and Dina Byrnes).
Ben Stiller Says “Meet the Fockers” Team Had to Prove Focker Was a Real Last Name in Order to Avoid R Rating. Charlotte Phillipp. December 6, 2024 at 8:07 AM. Moviestore/Shutterstock.
Stiller starred in the 2004 film, which was a sequel to the 2000 movie Meet the Parents. In both, as well as in a third installment, 2010's Little Fockers , Stiller portrayed nurse Greg Focker.
By comparison, Meet the Fockers made $46.1 million during the same weekend in 2004, for a five-day total of $70.5 million. Little Fockers grossed $148.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $162.2 million from other countries around the world, for a worldwide total of $310.7 million, making it the lowest-grossing film in the trilogy. [14]
Its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers also drew in a crowd, culminating in a total franchise gross of over $1.13 billion at the global box office.
In the 2000s, he played theatrical producer Charles Frohman in Finding Neverland, co-starred in the comedy Meet the Fockers (both 2004) as Bernie Focker, the fantasy thriller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and played the title character in the family comedy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007).