Whether you are afraid of making a terrible first impression or that they will hate you and do everything in their power to destroy your relationship, meeting the parents can be a very stressful and nerve-wracking experience. In life, it usually doesn't go as bad as you thought it would. In movies, it's a whole different story —just think of Robert DeNiro's character in Meet the Parents. This is this week's theme for Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. Without further ado, here are my picks —one is about meeting the parents, the others have a memorable "meet the parents" scene.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
23-year-old Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton) returns earlier from her vacation in Hawaii so that her parents (Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn) can meet her fiance, doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier). The problem? Joanna is white and John is African-American. Easily the most beautiful film about meeting the parents I've seen. Unfortunately, it's 2018 and there are people who still are against interracial marriages.
Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) are invited to dinner by Fiona's parents, King (John Cleese) and the Queen (Julie Andrews), to celebrate their marriage. Fiona's parents though have no idea that Fiona is still an ogre and so is her husband. The dinner scene is probably one of the most awkward and uncomfortable I've seen as neither Shrek nor his father-in-law want to be there.
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