Meet the Parents

Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the film chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless man while visiting his girlfriend's parents. Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, and Owen Wilson also star.

Meet the Parents is a remake of a 1992 film of the same name directed by Greg Glienna and produced by Jim Vincent. Glienna—who also played the original film's main protagonist—and Mary Ruth Clarke co-wrote the screenplay. Universal Studios purchased the rights to Glienna's film with the intent of creating a new version. Jim Herzfeld expanded the original script but development was halted for some time. Jay Roach read the expanded script and expressed his desire to direct the film but Universal declined him. At that time, Steven Spielberg was interested in directing the film while Jim Carrey was interested in playing the lead role. The studio only offered the film to Roach once Spielberg and Carrey left the project.

Meet the Parents (film series)

1992 independent film

Before the remake in 2000, there was the original film, a 1992 American independent comedy film written by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. Glienna also directed and starred in the film as the male protagonist, Greg. The film is about a young man meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time and the problems that arise when the girl's father takes a disliking to him.

Several years after the film's release, Universal Studios purchased the rights to the independent film. After hiring screenwriter Jim Herzfeld to expand the script, a new version of Meet the Parents was filmed and released in October 2000.

Films

Meet the Parents (2000)

Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) is a nurse living in Chicago. He intends to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), but his plan is disrupted when he learns that Pam's sister's fiance had asked Pam's father for permission before proposing. Greg and Pam travel to Pam's parents' house to attend Pam's sister's wedding. Greg hopes to propose to Pam in front of her family after receiving her father's permission. But this plan is put on hold when the airline loses his luggage, including the engagement ring.

Meet the Parents (soundtrack)

Meet the Parents is the soundtrack that accompanies the 2000 film Meet the Parents. The soundtrack album was released on September 26, 2000 on the DreamWorks Records label. "A Fool in Love", an original composition by Randy Newman featured on the album, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 73rd Academy Awards which marked the 14th time that Newman's music was nominated for an Oscar. The same song also won the 16th Annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Award and was nominated at the Golden Satellite Awards 2000.

Track listing

  • Randy Newman – "A Fool in Love" (2:16)
  • Randy Newman – "Poor Me" (1:34)
  • Randy Newman – "Got My Mojo Working" (1:58)
  • Randy Newman – "Give Me a Sign" (3:20)
  • Randy Newman – "Meet the Parents (2:40)
  • Randy Newman – "Could You Milk Me?" (2:39)
  • Randy Newman – "Greg Loses Jinx" (1:48)
  • Randy Newman – "Burning Down the House" (1:56)
  • Randy Newman – "Wrong Cat" (1:05)
  • Randy Newman – "The Car Race" (2:48)
  • Randy Newman – "Broken Hearted" (1:14)
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    Meet The Parents

    by: Jay-Z

    Woo! Uhh, uhh
    It's "The Gift & the Curse"
    Uhh, uhh yea
    First they love me then they hate me then they love me again
    .. they love me again
    Let's take a trip down.. I gotcha
    Let's take a trip down memory, lane at the cemetary
    Rain grey skies, seems at the end of every
    young black life is this line, "Damn - him already?
    Such a good kid," got us pourin Henn' already
    Liquor to the curb for my, niggaz up above
    When it, cracks through the pavement that's my way of sendin love
    So, give Big a hug, tell Aa-liyah I said hi
    'Til the next time I see her, on the other side
    He was just some thug that, caught some slugs
    And we loved him cause, in him we, saw some of us
    He walked like ussss, talked like ussss
    His back against the wall, nigga fought like us - damn
    Poor Isis, that's his momma name
    Momma ain't strong enough to raise no boy, what's his father name?
    Shorty never knew him, though he had his blood in him
    Hot temper, momma said he act just like her husband
    Daddy never fucked with him, so the streets raised him
    Isis blamin herself, she wish she coulda saved him
    Damn near impossible, only men can raise men
    He was his own man, not even him can save him
    He put his faith in her, thirty-eight in his waist
    But when you live by the gun you die by the same fate
    End up, dead before thirty-eight and umm
    That's the life of us raised by winter, it's a cold world
    Old girl turned to coke, tried to smoke her pain away
    Isis, life just, ended on that rainy day
    When she got the news her boy body could be viewed
    down at the City Morgue, opened the drawer, saw him nude
    Her addiction grew, prescription drugs, shift and brew
    Angel dust, dipped in WOO!
    She slipped into, her own fantasy world
    Had herself pregnant by a different dude
    But reality bites and, this is her life
    He wasn't really her husband, though he called her wife
    It was just this night when, moon was full
    And the stars were just right, and the dress was real tight
    Had her soundin like Lisa Lisa - I wonder if I take you home
    will you still love me after this night?
    Mike was the hardhead from the around the way
    that she wanted all her life, shit she wanted all the hype
    Used to hold on tight when he wheelied on the bike
    He was a Willie all her life he wasn't really the one to like
    It was a, dude named Shy who would really treat her right
    He wanted to run to the country to escape the city life
    But I-sis, like this, Broadway life
    She loved the Gucci sneakers, the red green and whites
    Hangin out the window when she first seen him fight
    She was so turned on that she had to shower twice
    How ironic it would, be some fight that
    turned into a homicide that'll alter their life
    See Mike at thirty-two was still on the scene
    Had a son fifteen that he never saw twice
    Sure he saw him as an infant, but he dissed on him like
    "If that was my son, he would look much different.
    See I'm light-skinnded and that baby there's dark
    so it's, momma's baby; poppa's maybe."
    Mike was still crazy out there runnin the streets (fuck niggaz want?)
    Had an older but light with thirty-eight gun in his reach
    It's been fourteen years, him and Isis ain't speak
    He runnin around like life's a peach, 'til one day
    he approached this thug that, had a mean mug
    And it looked so familiar that he called him "Young Cuz"
    Told him, get off the strip but the boy ain't budge (fuck you)
    Instead he pulled out a newer thirty-eight snub
    He clearly had the drop but the boy just paused (hold up)
    There was somethin in this man's face he knew he seen before
    It's like, lookin in the mirror seein hisself more mature
    And he took it as a sign from the almighty Lord
    You know what they say about he who hesitates in war
    (What's that?) He who hesitates is lost
    He can't explain what he saw before his picture went blank
    The old man didn't think he just followed his instinct
    Six shots into his kid, out of the gun
    Niggaz be a father, you're killin your son
    Six shots into his kid, out of the gun
    Niggaz be a father, you killin your sons




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