Film

Meet the Fockers 2004

Directed by Jay Roach

  • Comedy, Romance
  • 115 min
  • PG-13

Misery loves family.

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.

ComedyRomancefloridacentral intelligence agency (cia)nurseparent child relationshipanti-authoritarian upbringingparents-in-laworderlyjust marriedsex therapybad father-in-lawsequelfamily

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