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Meet the Parents
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Sex & Nudity

Numerous moderate references.

Pam and Greg prepare to have sex two or three times, but are always interrupted before it gets beyond passionate kissing.

Jack tells Greg to "Keep his snake in it's cage for 72 hours."

Violence & Gore

In one scene, some of the family members are playing volleyball in the pool when Greg hits the ball really hard and it hits a woman in the nose and she quickly starts bleeding. There is blood all over her face and around her in the water.

Profanity

1 use of the 'f' word by Greg, as well as 2 other incomplete ones and several uses of the 's' word. There is also a lot of other profanity, including 3 damns, 2 hells, 2 S.O.B.s, 1 ass, 5 uses of "Oh my G**," 4 of "G-d***" and 2 each of "For Christ's sakes" and "Jes**" as exclamations.

Greg's surname is essentially a constant play on the f-word.

Smoking: Gaylord (Ben Stiller) is a smoker, but because his future parents in law don't like it and don't know that he does, he just chews nicotine gums most of the time (a cat gets into it one time). In one scene, he has to climb the roof, finds his cigarettes that had been thrown up there earlier and smokes one.

Alcohol: Brief drinking throughout the movie especially during dinners.

Drugs: After Jack begins playing the song, "Puff the Magic Dragon," in his car, Greg jokes about what the song is allegedly really about (smoking pot), but Jack won't believe it and then asks, "Are you a pothead, Focker?" (Greg replies that he isn't).

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Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug references and language.


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