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Meet the Fockers
The movie poster for Meet the Fockers.
Directed by	Jay Roach
Produced by	Robert DeNiro, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal
Written by	Mary Ruth Clarke and Greg Glienna (characters) John Hamburg and Marc Hyman (story) James Herzfeld & John Hamburg (screenplay)
Starring	Ben Stiller Robert De Niro Teri Polo Dustin Hoffman Barbra Streisand Blythe Danner
Music by	Randy Newman
Distributed by	- USA - Universal Studios - non-USA - DreamWorks
Release date(s)	December 22, 2004
Running time	110 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Meet the Parents (2000)
Followed by	Little Fockers
IMDb profile

Meet the Fockers (2004) is a comedy film and a sequel to Meet the Parents starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller. Both are directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers). In addition to DeNiro and Stiller, Meet the Fockers stars Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, and Owen Wilson. The series will continue with another sequel, Little Fockers due for release in 2009 [1].

Universal had to demonstrate to the MPAA that the name Focker was an actual surname in use in North America in order to deflect accusations of profanity.

This film is number 25 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".

Contents 1 Plot 2 Characters 3 Box office 4 Trivia 5 Notes 6 External links

After being given permission to marry the daughter of a retired CIA agent, Gaylord "Greg" Focker, his fiancée Pam and her parents travel to Miami, Florida to meet his quirky liberal parents, Roz and Bernie Focker. The film features a new character, Little Jack, who is Pam's nephew, and Jack and Dina's grandchild. Jack tries to nurture his namesake grandchild. Pam also finds out that she is pregnant with Greg's child.

Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller): The protagonist of the movie. A nurse living in Chicago with fiancée Pam, the daughter of a retired CIA agent. Gets into trouble and mischief. In his childhood, he had his foreskin saved, had a crush on his babysitter Isabel (whom he eventually lost his virginity to), and often finished in mediocre fashion in competitive events which was displayed in the "Wall of Gaylord" his father built. His father calls him Gay or Gaylord which is a recurring joke within the film.

Jack Byrnes (Robert DeNiro): Pam's father and Dina's husband. Even though he is retired, he is still very much in the CIA. Using his "CIA" connections, he was able to plan a surprise honeymoon for his second child, Debbie, and track down information on Pam's boyfriend Greg. He is also the inventor of a Motion Sensor Nanny-Cam, and the "Mannery Gland", an invention that lets Jack "breastfeed" L.J.. His coverup job is a retired florist/horticulturist. With an intense love for his family, Jack still has a distrust of Greg and goes so far as trying to prove it by taking desperate measures such as injecting him with truth serum.

Pamela Martha Byrnes (Teri Polo): Greg's fiancée. She is a second grade teacher in Chicago and lives with Greg. Before starting a relationship with Greg, she was engaged briefly to Kevin, with whom she is still friends.

Dina Byrnes (Blythe Danner): The wife of Jack Byrnes, and mother of Pam, Debbie and Denny. She balances the relationship with Jack as the soft spot, and the sympathetic voice of reason to her husband.

Rosalind "Roz" Focker (Barbra Streisand): The mother of Greg Focker, who is a sex therapist for senior citizens in Miami and lives on "Focker Isle" with husband, Bernard. Loves her son intensely.

Bernard Focker (Dustin Hoffman): The father of Greg. He was an attorney for a brief period of time, but became a homemaker after the birth of his son. Bernie lives on "Focker Isle" in Miami, with his wife Roz. He claims to be a practitioner of capoeira, the Brazilian martial art of dance-fighting, but what he actually shows is only remotely similar to capoeira. His fondness for chimichangas is a recurring joke within the film. Loves his son intensely.

Little Jack (Spencer & Bradley Pickren): Jack's approximately 1-year-old grandson by his other daughter, Debbie. Jack is grooming him to be a genius using unconventional child rearing methods. He probably has the youngest speaking part in a film which manifests in the form of baby sign language and the expletive asshole, which he accidentally picked up from Greg.

Isabel Villalobos (Alanna Ubach): Former housekeeper and babysitter of the Fockers and current owner of a catering business. She had a brief fling with Greg when he was nineteen years old which resulted in Greg losing his virginity to her. This affair led Jack to suspect that Greg may be the father of her child. Although in the film, Isabel is assumed to be approximately 5 or more years older than Greg, in real life, Alanna Ubach is ten years younger than Ben Stiller.

Jorge Villalobos (Ray Santiago): The fifteen-year-old son of Isabel, Greg's former babysitter and confidante. He is a mechanical prodigy with a reputation for being able fix anything. Jorge is also a liar, but his most definable attribute is his uncanny resemblance to Greg and the aforementioned person's antics, which leads Jack to believe that Greg is his father. Another recurring joke in the film is that either Greg or Jorge look like a "young, Jewish/Hispanic Marlon Brando." It turns out his father is former minor league baseball player Rusty Bridges, also played by Stiller. His name translates from Spanish to English as George House of the Wolves.

Moses (Terem): The Fockers' pet dog, a Chihuahua/Yorkie mix. ^[1] He has the sublime ability and urge... to mate with everything and anything that moves. From Little Jack's Einstein doll, to Dina's foot, to Mr. Jinx (the Byrnes' cat who can use the toilet), he will attempt to mate with just about anything and everything.

Mr. Jinx: The Byrnes' pet Himalayan cat. He is able to use the toilet and has extensive aquatic training. He once flushed Moses (the Fockers' small dog) down the toilet in the Byrnes' trailer, but they are later seen eating wedding cake together in peace at the end of the film.

• The film was a huge box office hit, grossing more than $40,000,000 two weekends in a row. It went on to make $279.2m in the US, bringing its worldwide total to a staggering $515.2m.

• The woman who offers to store Greg's bag in the captain's closet is the flight attendant in Meet the Parents that Greg mouthed off to after temporarily splitting up with Pam.

• In the first movie Meet The Parents, Greg says he grew up in Detroit, and later Pam says she called his mom in Detroit, however in Meet The Fockers, his parents live on Focker Isle in Miami, as does their former house keeper Isabella, whom Greg had an affair with 15 years earlier, so it would seem he grew up there, not Detroit. However, it is mentioned that after Roz's father died, they moved from Detroit to Miami, so Isabella must have moved soon after the Fockers. Also, later in the movie, when Bernard and Greg are chasing Jack, Bernard was looking at a map of Detroit. This could be a joke or the fact that they did live in Detroit.

• When honked, the horn of Jack Byrnes' trailer plays the melody of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon", which is a running gag from the first movie.

• Many potential continuity errors from the first movie, such as a mention of Greg's sister, are addressed in this film as having been nervous lies on the part of Greg.

• When Bernard is in the bathroom with Jack there are two cuts from him, to Jack, and back. In the first one, he is barefoot, and in the second one, he has socks on.

• Cedric Yarbrough, who plays Deputy S. "Jonesy" Jones on the series Reno 911!, plays a warden named Cletus at the Miami Police Department. Coincidentally, the feature film version of Reno 911! takes place in Miami.

• The song played when Bernie takes down Jack on the football field is Rock and Roll by Gary Glitter although this doesn't appear on the soundtrack album.

• Police investigating the scenes of the failed 21 July 2005 London bombings found a rucksack allegedly belonging to Yasin Hassan Omar that contained a gelatinous mass, two shirts, deodorant, aftershave and a DVD of Meet the Fockers. ^[2]

• Teri Polo has confirmed that she is signed on to reprise her role in the third installment of the series which is now in pre-production.

1. ^ Movie Review - Meet the Fockers. Retrieved from http://www.ahafilm.info/movies/mr.phtml?fid=7624 on 2007-02-26.
2. ^ Accused caused "Tube train panic" BBC News Thursday, 25 January 2007, 14:18 GMT

• Official website
• Meet the Fockers at the Internet Movie Database
• Meet the Fockers at Rotten Tomatoes

Meet the Parents Series

Meet the Parents • Meet the Fockers • Little Fockers