Meet the Parents

SmokeScreeners Rating:  

Year of Release: 2000

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Director: Jay Roach

Distributor: Universal

The film was reviewed by Dr. Barry Hummel from QDREF on 8/21/2009.

Additional comments: "Ben Stiller smokes on two occasions, but overall the film delivers a negative tobacco message. Early in the movie, his fiancee tell him that her father views smoking 'as a sign of weakness'. To hide his addiction, he spends the rest of the movie chewing nicotine gum. Later, in a moment of weakness, he smokes a cigarette on the roof the house, setting fire to the leaves in the gutter. Sadly, that same seen has a blatant product placement ad for Viceroy cigarettes."