
In four days, Jerry Peyser and Steve Tobias will become in-laws when their respective offspring, Melissa Peyser and Mark Tobias, get married. Married Jerry is a Chicago area podiatrist. He is risk averse to an extreme, afraid of heights including being in tall buildings and flying, even watching airline commercials. He is also extremely controlling, having organized the lavish wedding against the simple affair Melissa had envisioned. He is aggravated that he has not yet met S... (Full plot summary below)
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In four days, Jerry Peyser and Steve Tobias will become in-laws when their respective offspring, Melissa Peyser and Mark Tobias, get married. Married Jerry is a Chicago area podiatrist. He is risk averse to an extreme, afraid of heights including being in tall buildings and flying, even watching airline commercials. He is also extremely controlling, having organized the lavish wedding against the simple affair Melissa had envisioned. He is aggravated that he has not yet met Steve, who has missed one family function after another. Divorced Steve is a photocopy machine salesman... or so Mark says. In reality, Steve is a deep undercover CIA field agent, something that Mark knows but is unable to divulge to anyone, even Tracy and her family. His work, which has always overtaken his life, is the reason Steve has missed all these family events. Steve is unwilling to hand over reigns of his cases to his junior partner, the capable Angela Harris. Steve finally meets the Peysers, which Steve manipulates into an undercover work dinner. Steve's current mission involves setting up the sale of twenty year old runaway "Olga" to a French arms dealer, violent Jean-Pierre Thibodoux, which is purely a cover to obtain information clandestinely from Thibodoux. Jerry inadvertently gets embroiled in Steve's case when he overhears the beginning of the deal going down. Jerry does not believe Steve to be one of "the good guys", especially as he learns that the FBI is after Steve, who they believe has become a rogue agent. This belief may affect not only their time together, but their lives and whether Melissa and Mark will get married. Thrown into the mix is Mark's mother/Steve's ex-wife, Judy Tobias, who hates almost everything about her ex-husband except one thing...
Leave your thoughts about The In-Laws.
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekTake evasive action--serpentine, serpentine! |
| Hollywood Report CardRoss AnthonyVery Funny. Apparently this film is a remake, but it feels more like a sequel to the 1994 "True Lies." It's playful & good spirited "Last one to the plane gets to take one hundred and seventy million through customs!" |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottIt's as if the director, Andrew Fleming, and the screenwriters, Nat Mauldin and Ed Solomon, set out to make a movie that would be mediocre in every respect. If so, they have completely succeeded. |
| The SpectatorMark SteynFleming and co. were working from a version that had clicked very well in 1979, and such interest as posterity has in this new take will be in its usefulness as a masterclass in how not to remake a movie. |
| www.susangranger.comSusan GrangerIf you like genial, if predictable, marital comedies, you'll find it amusing and diverting, but if you're looking for originality, it's not to be found here. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinFor the record, [Andrew] Fleming's best movie is still Dick. |
| Movie MomNell MinowIt's hard to blow a premise like this one, but this retread has more misfires than hits. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chawknowingly absurd but played with deadly earnest. |
| Jam! MoviesLouis B. HobsonThe In-Laws is the kind of sublimely ridiculous piece of cinema fluff that leaves you grateful for what it delivers while begging for even more. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray ConlogueBut uneven acting isn't fatal here, since Andrew Bergman's screenplay is strong enough and Andrew Fleming's direction seamless enough to carry it forward. |