Meet The Fockers

About Meet The Fockers

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

After being given permission to marry the daughter of a retired CIA agent, Gaylord "Greg" Focker, his fiancée Pam and her parents who own a cat travel to Miami, Florida to meet his quirky liberal parents, Roz and Bernie Focker who own a dog. Roz is a sex therapist for the elderly, while his dad is a prosecutor who stopped practicing when Greg was born to be a stay at home dad. On the other hand, Pam’s parents Jack and Dina are traditionally conservative, which produces many of the movie's set ups and comedic situations. This movie shows an evolution in Jack’s relationship with his family. In the first movie, Meet the Parents, Jack is always in control of his family, whereas this time he goes too far with his suspicious nature and covert operations to expose what he believes is Greg's secret past.

Jack Tiberius Byrnes (Robert De Niro): Pam's father and Dina's husband. Even though he is retired, he uses his "CIA" connections to track down information on Greg and others he thinks will reveal that Greg is a liar. He is also the inventor of a Motion Sensor Nanny-Cam, and the "Manary Gland" (a portmanteau of "man" and "mammary gland"), an invention that lets Jack "breastfeed" his grandson. His coverup job is a retired florist/horticulturist. Even though he has given permission for the two to marry, 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.