parents-in-law

Male nurse Greg Focker wants to pop the question to his girlfried Pam Byrnes. But she's daddy's little girl, and daddy, has some old-fashioned ideas about manners and manhood. So Pam and Greg make a pilgrimage to the Byrnes' homestead on Long Island. Greg gets off the wrong foot with Mr. Byrnes and never recovers. Little white lies mushroom into ghastly whoppers. Greg finds out that Mr. Byrnes was in the CIA for 34 years. And so the weekend goes from bad to worse to mortifying.

Environmentalist Isabel Green, still conflicted over the suicide of her first husband, marries for peace rather than passion the second time around, but while vacationing with her new spouse's parents in the Adirondacks, it becomes desperately clear she has made the wrong choice.

Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky knows she has not been accepted by everyone in the Ziplinsky family, but her dedication to the family's candy factory helps her overlook the family's shortcomings, and as she traces the history of the factory, she finds greater respect for her in-laws.