2004 · comedy · romance · spy
Meet the Fockers
Directed by Jay Roach1h 55m2004
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.
Our read: Meet the Fockers (2004) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · spy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- tender
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