Meet the Parents is a 1992 American independent comedy film written by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. Glienna also directed and starred in the film as the male protagonist, Greg. The film is about a young man meeting his girlfriends parents for the first time and the problems that arise when the girls father takes a disliking to him.
A clumsy but wellmeaning young man named Greg Greg Glienna is on his way to visit his girlfriend Pams Jacqueline Cahill parents for the first time. Stopping at a gas station on the way, he is warned by an attendant Jim Vincent of the catastrophic experience of his girlfriends previous boyfriend when he first met her strict and overprotective father. Greg ignores the advice to turn around and go home.Arriving at her parents home, Greg immediately becomes a target of the girls familys anger when he, among other mistakes, clogs the toilet and makes it overflow, destroys the dinner roast and the familys beloved Victrola, almost blinds his girlfriends mother with a fishing rod, gets into bed with his girlfriends sister, and accidentally drowns the family dog. When his girlfriends father feels that his family has been brought to the very brink of destruction, he chases Greg out of the house with a shotgun. ........
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