Voted 52nd funniest movie of all time on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies list. He becomes even more uncomfortable after he receives an impromptu Meeting the rest of Pam's family and friends, Greg still feels like an outsider. Greg tells the stewardess on the plane to "shut your pie hole". Scenes appearing to place animals in jeopardy were simulated. When Steven Spielberg and Jim Carrey were attached to the project, Al Pacino was set to play Jack Byrnes. A prop cat was used for the dangling and dropping part of the scene. This applauded Earned back its initial budget of $55 million in just eleven days. It went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 2000, earning over $160 million in North America and over $330 million worldwide.
Mr. Jinx is a Himalayan cat, a difficult breed to train. Thomas McCarthy and Blythe Danner previously appeared as mother on son in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Saint Maybe.
Greg attempts to impress Jack but his efforts fail. His clothes are also an olive green in the scene. When the Byrnes first arrive to the Fockers' house in Meet the Fockers (2004), Greg's dad states that they moved from Detroit. Ben Stiller won two comedy awards for his performance and the film was chosen as the Favorite Comedy Motion Picture at the 2001 At the Byrnes' house, Greg meets Pam's father, Jack, mother, Dina, and their beloved cat, Jinx. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, it chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless nurse while visiting his girlfriend's parents. Ben Stiller played a rabbi in Keeping the Faith (2000). The cat, "Mr. Jinx", was played by a cat named "Mishka". The trainer verbally cued the cat to stay and the cat happily obliged until the scene was over. The MPAA would not allow the name "Focker" unless the filmmakers could find an actual person with that surname. The scenes at the "Surf and Turf" restaurant were filmed at a Port Washington, New York restaurant called "Louie's". AHA200802-2 A hidden hose then wet the ashes from beneath to create the illusion of jinx spoiling the remains. They wanted a "tasteful, Republican" feel, so the colors are red, white, and blue. In the movie, Jack's drink of choice is a Tom Collins. Although set in Chicago, none of the movie was filmed there. It featured Greg proposing to Pam during a Cubs game at Wrigley Field and failing spectacularly. This is a reference to When Jack first meets Greg and asks him if he chose the green car color, to which Greg answers no, Jack states that geniuses typically tend to pick green. Jinx seizes the opportunity by running onto the ashes and transforming the remains into a litterbox. Since the cat was too small to actually move the bridal gown on its own, a dog was hidden underneath the dress by one trainer and coaxed to the other side with an edible treat by another trainer.
Jinx has several scenes with Robert DeNiro as Pam's difficult father Jack, and the actors became fast friends during filming. Remained in the U.S. top ten box-office for eleven weeks. To save money (the film had a $55 million budget), they had Greg's failed proposal take place outside of a school instead. For other uses, see "But I was trying to have in a kind of forties-farce way, the opportunity to create realistic characters, but heighten the comedic situations and predicaments a bit so that they're still very funny and there is still some very broad humor, but you would connect to the characters and completely identify with Ben Stiller's anxiety about not only meeting Robert De Niro's character and all, but the kind of characters from his past that come with him. Greg follows the cat and finally catches it, holds it off the edge of the roof, and drops it onto the ground.
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Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach.