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The Film, Meet the Fockers, is the sequel to the movie Meet the Parents. Gaylord “Greg” Focker and his fiancée Pam Byrnes decided to introduce their parents to each other. They first fly to Oyster Bay, to pick up Pam’s father, retired CIA operative Jack Byrnes, her mother Dina and one-year-old nephew Little Jack. Instead of going to the airport as planned, Jack decides to drive the family to Miami to meet the Fockers in his new RV. Once they arrive, they are greeted by Greg’s father, Bernie and his mother Roz, who is a sex therapist for elder couples. Since Greg is worried that Jack may be put off by the Fockers’ lifestyle, Greg convinces his mother Roz to pretend she is a yoga instructor for the weekend. Though Jack and Bernie get off to a good start, small cracks begin to form between Jack and the Fockers, due to their contrasting personalities. Things were made worse when a chase between the Fockers’ dog, Moses, and the Byrnes’ cat, Jinx, resulting with Jinx flushing Moses down the RV’s toilet, forcing Bernie to destroy it to save Moses. Later on Bernie accidentally injures Jack’s back during a leisurely game of football. Pam, meanwhile, informs Greg that she is pregnant, but the two decide to keep it a secret from Jack, who does not know they are sexually active. Jack, however, becomes suspicious of Greg’s character again when they are introduced to the Fockers’ housekeeper, Isabel, who Bernie reveals that Greg had a sexual affair with fifteen years ago. Jack later takes the RV to Isabel’s fifteen-year-old son, Jorge, to fix the toilet, but is disturbed by Jorge’s striking resemblance to Greg and begins to suspect he may be Greg’s son with Isabel. Meanwhile, Roz, Bernie, and Dina realize Pam is pregnant, but promise not to tell Jack.
Things eventually come to a crunch when Greg is left alone to babysit Little Jack, who Jack has been raising via the Ferber method. Despite Jack’s instructions to leave Little Jack to self-soothe by himself, Greg

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