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| Directed by | Greg Glienna |
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| Cinematography | Bradley Sellers |
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| Music by | Scott May |
Production company | Post Production - VPA Teleproductions - Editor - Jack Liga |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US $30,000-35,000 (estimated) |
Meet the Parents is a 1992 American independent comedy film written by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. Glienna also directed the film; wrote the original songs "Keep Smiling" (performed by Walter Tabayoyong) and "When Philip's There" (performed by Clarke); and starred as protagonist Greg: a young man meeting his fiancée's parents for the first time who sets off a series of accidents and causes the family to fall apart. Emo Philips served as an associate producer, wrote the film's title theme song (performed by Mary Louise Herrold), and made a cameo as a video store employee.
Filmed on an approximately $30,000-$35,000 budget and shot in and around Chicago in 1991,[1][2] Meet the Parents was not widely distributed and did not earn a large box office profit 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 its release, Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the independent film and hired screenwriter Jim Herzfeld to expand the script. A new version of Meet the Parents was filmed and released in October 2000.[1] The 2000 version in turn inspired two movie sequels[3][4] and two television series.[5][6]
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- ^ Lynette Rice and Dan Snierson. On the Air, Entertainment Weekly, August 9, 2002. Retrieved October 10, 2008.