Meet the Parents (1992)
January 1, 1992Release Date
Meet the Parents (1992)
January 1, 1992Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Tony Boswell
Bar Patron
Jacqueline Cahill
Pam
Dick Galloway
Mr. Burns
Mary Ruth Clarke
Fay
Carol Whelan
Mrs. Burns
John Dacosse
Customer
Emo Philips
Video Store Employee
Greg Glienna
Director
Jim Vincent
Producer
Karen Ann Gronowski
Fiancé
Bradley Sellers
Cinematographer
Dan Schalk
Editor
Harry Hickstein
Lee
Mike Toomey
Priest
Marc Vann
Second Customer
Dominic Sfreddo
Hit & Run Driver
Details.
Wiki.
Meet the Parents is a 1992 American independent comedy film written by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. Glienna also directed the film; wrote the original songs "Keep Smiling" (performed by Walter Tabayoyong) and "When Philip's There" (performed by Clarke); and starred as protagonist Greg: a young man meeting his fiancée's parents for the first time who sets off a series of accidents and causes the family to fall apart.
Filmed on an approximately $100,000 budget and shot in and around Chicago in 1991, Meet the Parents was not widely distributed and did not earn a large box office profit upon its limited release. It did, however, garner some critical acclaim and film industry attention towards remaking the film on a bigger budget.
Several years after its release, Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the independent film and hired screenwriter Jim Herzfeld to expand the script. A new version of Meet the Parents was filmed and released in October 2000. The 2000 version in turn inspired two movie sequels
and two television series.