It’s a Focker-Byrnes reunion!

Ben Stiller , Robert De Niro , Teri Polo and director Jay Roach gathered for the 25th anniversary of “ Meet the Parents ,” a comedy of errors about male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) who endures a lot of painfully awkward hijinx while visiting his girlfriend’s parents for the first time. De Niro plays Polo’s character’s father Greg Byrnes, a cat-loving retired CIA agent who rules with a well meaning (maybe?) but iron fist. They reunited at Manhattan’s Tribeca Performing Arts Center as part of this year’s Tribeca Festival , which was co-founded by De Niro and Jane Rosenthal in 2002.

“It’s so much fun to hear laughter in a theater with comedy that’s 25 years old,” Stiller said during the Q&A after the screening. “It still works.”

Though a quarter century

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