Meet the Fockers (2004) on Netflix
Greg Focker and Pam Byrnes are engaged, and their parents have never met. Jack Byrnes, Pam's father and a retired CIA operative, drives the group to Miami to meet Greg's parents.
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- Rotten Tomatoes39%
Trailer
Plot summary
Greg Focker and Pam Byrnes plan to marry in six months, and they want their parents to know one another before the wedding. The couple goes to Oyster Bay, New York, to pick up Pam's father Jack, a retired CIA operative, her mother Dina, and her nephew Little Jack. Jack's new RV carries them all to Miami, Florida, where Greg's parents live. Bernie Focker, a lawyer who stays home to raise his children, and Roz, a sex therapist for older couples, greet the visitors. Dina gets along with the Fockers, but Jack and Greg's parents clash over their contrasting personalities and backgrounds.
Cast
- Bradley Pickrenas Little Jack
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Meet the Fockers (2004)
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- Twins Spencer and Bradley Pickren shared the role of Little Jack; their mother, a pediatric nurse, had taught them sign language from birth, and using two babies let the crew swap in a fresh twin whenever one got tired, working around child-labor time limits.
- The head-butt Ben Stiller takes in the film was added digitally, but he still had to fake being hit on set by grabbing his face, cursing loudly, and smearing on fake blood, which upset the young Pickren twins enough that they stayed wary of him afterward.
- To help build the character of sex therapist Roz Focker, the filmmakers consulted real sex experts Jennifer and Laura Berman, who described the difficulty people in their field face keeping their own children from learning about sex too early, an idea folded into the film.
- Meet the Fockers broke The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's records for both the highest Christmas Day gross and the biggest single-day Tuesday gross, taking in $19.1 million and $12.6 million respectively.
