English to Russian Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama

MEET THE PARENTS (2000)
As a protective father terrorising Ben Stiller and Jay Roach’s comedy of in-law-driven humiliation, De Niro spread the fear. “I was really scared,” Roach admitted. “I had a kind of please-the-father obsession with making a film he would be proud of.” MTP was a better fit for De Niro after Analyze This and Rocky & Bullwinkle, though, and he worked the “bring you down to Chinatown” routine beautifully. Typically, he went overboard by meeting CIA agents and barely speaking to Stiller on set. It’s the old watchful stillness that swings it, mind.