Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) brings his overwhelmingly
uptight girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), home for the holidays to meet his down - to - earth family.
Everett brings
his uptight girlfriend Meredith (SJP) home to meet his family at Christmas with disastrous consequences.
Not exact matches
Stu (Ed Helms), an
uptight dentist who's verbally and physically bullied by his horrid
girlfriend, Phil (Bradley Cooper), a cocky, sleazy teacher, decent groom - to - be Doug (Justin Bartha) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis), the stag's insane brother - in - law («a one man wolf pack» who doesn't care «if we kill someone»), drive to Las Vegas for Doug's bachelor party.
Apatow regular Paul Rudd stars as pompous,
uptight Alvin alongside Into the Wild's Emile Hirsch as Lance, the young brother of his
girlfriend.
Known to my readers as the girl who recites awfully self - aware dialogue in Twilight, here she redeems herself with a performance that runs the gamut —
uptight analyst, ironically relationship - dependent
girlfriend, drunken harlot.
What doesn't work is the love story between
uptight Ed and his free - spirited, hippie
girlfriend played by Shailene Woodley.
We've seen all these characters before — the nerdy dentist with the shrewish
girlfriend; the inappropriate fat guy; the schoolteacher who's about as mature as his students and yet happily married; the slightly
uptight groom - to - be — but we've never seen them from quite this angle before.