Meet the Parents 4 is titled Focker-in-Law, and it opens in US and UK theaters on Wednesday, November 25, 2026, the day before Thanksgiving. Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro return as Greg Focker and Jack Byrnes, 16 years after Little Fockers. This time Greg’s grown-up son Henry wants to marry Olivia, played by Ariana Grande, and the family is sure she is the wrong choice.
| Title | Focker-in-Law |
| US release date | Wednesday, November 25, 2026 (Thanksgiving week) |
| UK release date | November 25, 2026 |
| Runtime | 105 minutes (1 hr 45 min) |
| Rating | 12A in Ireland; US rating not yet published (all three earlier films were PG-13) |
| Director | John Hamburg (co-writer of every Meet the Parents film) |
| Screenplay | John Hamburg; story by Hamburg, Ilana Glazer and Austen Earl |
| Producers | Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Jay Roach, Ben Stiller, John Lesher, John Hamburg |
| Distributors | Universal Pictures (US and Canada); Paramount Pictures (international) |
| Starring | Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Ariana Grande, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, Skyler Gisondo, Beanie Feldstein |
| Music | Theodore Shapiro |
| Filming | August 18 to November 1, 2025, in New York City and Westchester County |
| Place in the series | Fourth film, after Little Fockers (2010) |
Meet the Parents 4 Release date and Time
Focker-in-Law opens on Wednesday, November 25, so families can see it over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. Some outlets list Thanksgiving Day, November 26. The studio date is the 25th.
Tickets: Tickets should be available now or very soon on Fandango, Atom Tickets and the AMC, Regal and Cinemark apps. Check your local theater for Tuesday evening previews on November 24, which most wide releases now offer.
When will it stream?
No date has been announced. Universal films usually reach digital rental and purchase about three to five weeks after release, and stream on Peacock about four months after release. That points to digital purchase around late December 2026 and Peacock around spring 2027. This is an estimate based on Universal’s usual pattern.
Focker-in-Law Cast and characters
| Actor | Character | Who they are |
| Robert De Niro | Jack Byrnes | Retired CIA agent and the family’s suspicious patriarch |
| Ben Stiller | Greg Focker | The nurse who married into the Byrnes family |
| Ariana Grande | Olivia Jones | Henry’s fiancée, a life coach and former FBI hostage negotiator |
| Skyler Gisondo | Henry Focker | Greg and Pam’s son, now grown up (previously played by Colin Baiocchi) |
| Beanie Feldstein | Samantha Focker | Greg and Pam’s daughter (previously played by Daisy Tahan) |
| Teri Polo | Pam Byrnes Focker | Greg’s wife, Jack’s daughter |
| Blythe Danner | Dina Byrnes | Jack’s wife |
| Owen Wilson | Kevin Rawley | Pam’s wealthy ex-fiancé |
| Eduardo Franco | Eduardo Villalobos | Samantha’s boyfriend |
Are Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand in it? Their return as Greg’s parents, Bernie and Roz Focker, has not been announced. They are not on the published cast list.
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What is Focker-in-Law about?
The story turns the original film around. In Meet the Parents (2000), Greg was the nervous outsider trying to win over Jack. Now Greg’s son Henry wants to propose to Olivia, a strong-willed woman the whole family thinks is a complete mismatch.
The trailer shows Greg taking Jack’s old role as the suspicious father, while Olivia, a former FBI hostage negotiator, is more than a match for both of them. Expect the franchise’s running jokes, including Jack’s “circle of trust” and Kevin, Pam’s overly perfect ex.
Trailer
The first trailer premiered at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 15, 2026, introduced by Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. It runs about three minutes and is on YouTube and Apple TV. Most of the attention has gone to the scenes between Grande and Stiller.
Meet the Parents movies in order
- Meet the Parents (2000): Greg meets his girlfriend Pam’s father, Jack, for the first time
- Meet the Fockers (2004): the Byrnes family meets Greg’s parents, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand
- Little Fockers (2010): Jack looks for a successor as head of the family
- Focker-in-Law (2026): Greg’s son brings home a fiancée
Before you go: the original Meet the Parents is the one to rewatch. Focker-in-Law reverses its set-up, so the jokes land better if you remember it.
Expected Box Office Collection
No tracking has been published yet. The series has a strong history: Meet the Parents earned about $330 million worldwide, Meet the Fockers about $516 million, and Little Fockers about $310 million. Meet the Fockers was one of the highest-grossing live-action comedies ever when it came out.
Focker-in-Law opens the same week that The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping plays its second weekend. As an adult-and-family comedy, it is aiming at a different audience, and Thanksgiving weekend is one of the busiest of the year.
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