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''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 girlfriend's parents for the first time and the problems that arise when the girl's father takes a disliking to him. Filmed on a budget of approximately $100,000 and shot in and around Chicago,〔(The Boys Who Met the Parents ), ''Stumped''. Retrieved March 29, 2010.〕 ''Meet the Parents'' was not widely distributed and did not earn a large profit at the box office 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 the film's release, Universal Studios purchased the rights to the independent film. After hiring 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.〔Gallo, Phil. (Meet My Folks ), ''Variety'', July 21, 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2008.〕〔Lynette Rice and Dan Snierson. (On the Air ), ''Entertainment Weekly'', August 9, 2002. Retrieved October 10, 2008.〕 ==Plot== A clumsy but well-meaning young man named Greg (Greg Glienna) is on his way to visit his girlfriend Pam's (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 girlfriend's 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 girl's family's anger when he, among other mistakes, clogs the toilet and makes it overflow, destroys the dinner roast and the family's beloved Victrola, almost blinds his girlfriend's mother with a fishing rod, gets into bed with his girlfriend's sister, and accidentally drowns the family dog. When his girlfriend's father feels that his family has been brought to the very brink of destruction, he chases Greg out of the house with a shotgun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meet the Parents (1992 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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