

Meet the Parents 25th Anniversary
Reunions & Retrospectives
| 108 MINUTESGreg Focker (Ben Stiller) is head over heels in love with his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), and is ready to pop the big question. When his attempt to propose is thwarted by a phone call with the news that Pam’s younger sister is getting married, Greg realizes that the key to Pam’s hand in marriage lies with her formidable father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro). A trip to New York for her sister’s wedding seems to be just the right occasion for Greg to ask Pam to be his wife. But everything that could possibly go wrong, does. Upon his arrival at the family’s picturesque, Norman Rockwell-like home, Greg is greeted by what appears to be the picture-perfect family: a loving husband and wife with a doting son and two daughters and a beloved cat. But for a guy who usually resorts to dry wit in stressful situations, Greg is suddenly shooting blanks with Jack, a retired horticulturist…and rather imposing figure. No one is good enough for Jack’s first-born daughter, and the fact that Greg is a cat-hating male nurse with a vulgar-sounding last name is not helping things at all. While Greg bends over backwards to try and make a good impression, his weekend begins with lost luggage at the airport and it’s all downhill from there, turning into a hilarious series of disasters, one after another. First comes love, then comes the interrogation.
After the screening: A conversation featuring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Jay Roach, and Jane Rosenthal.


Panelist

Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller is a DGA® and Emmy®-winning actor, director, writer and producer whose iconic filmography, including projects like Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, Night at the Museum, Madagascar, and The Royal Tenenbaums, have amassed over $3 billion at the box office. He currently directs and executive produces the Peabody Award-winning, worldwide phenomenon, Severance, for Apple TV+. Onscreen, he will next reprise his role as Greg Focker opposite Robert De Niro in a new Meet The Parents film, and as a filmmaker, he next directs a documentary about his prolific parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, through his production company, Red Hour Films. Among his humanitarian efforts, Stiller currently serves as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
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