In case you have a look at the credit of 2000’s “Meet the Dad and mom,” you would possibly discover that Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke got a “story by” credit score. It’s because the duo wrote the screenplay for “Meet the Dad and mom” (1992), with Glienna additionally serving because the director and main function, Greg. The movie was shot for about $100,000 and was solely launched in restricted markets. One of many greatest claims to fame for the movie was that musician and comic Emo Philips served as an affiliate producer, in addition to supplied the movie’s theme tune (with Mary Louise Herrold on vocals) and had a small cameo as a video retailer worker. Nobody actually noticed “Meet the Dad and mom” when it got here out, however the critics who did see the movie spoke extremely of it, like Raindance Movie Pageant Founder Elliot Grove who stated the movie was, “a lot funnier and tighter than the Hollywood model.”
“Meet the Dad and mom” was given a small house video launch on VHS, the place the movie has primarily languished as “misplaced media.” Common purchased the rights with the intention of remaking it and has reportedly not allowed Glienna to re-release the movie in any format, however he has sometimes uploaded it to YouTube the place it’s then instantly pulled down on account of a copyright strike. Luckily, some … let’s name them “unofficial preservationists” have made the movie out there on-line (if you realize the place to look, wink wink). Whereas 1992’s “Meet the Dad and mom” is noticeably low-budget and would not have A-list Hollywood expertise on display, it is very straightforward to see why a studio would need to scoop up the thought for themselves. It is a hilarious worst-case-scenario movie cranked to 11, however given the movie’s context, it additionally is sensible why Common would need to distance itself from the unique movie.
