History ObnoxiousInLaws / Film

* ''Film/KabhiKushiKabhieGham'': Yashvardhan disowns his adoptive son, Rahul, for marrying lowborn girl Anjali, defying a match he had planned for him. Yash's biological son and Rahul's adoptive brother, Rohan, only learns about this years later, after which he vows to reunite the family together, setting off the plot of the film.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Wu doesn't think highly of Jin. [[spoiler:Jin reveals that Ming got into a fight with her because of her disapproval when they were dating, which led to Ming panda-ing out, forcing a terrified Wu to back down in order to pacify Ming's rage. While she still doesn't seem to like Jin, she's at least civil towards him.]]

* In ''Film/TheRef'', this is played straight with the mother-in-law from hell Rose Chasseur, but subverted with both of her sons' families. Brother and sister-in-law Gary and Connie Chasseur initially seem like classic obnoxious in-laws, but they become slightly sympathetic characters when it turns out they're as fed up with "Mother Rose" as everybody else. Plus, even though the main couple (played by Creator/KevinSpacey and Creator/JudyDavis) get the SympatheticPOV, it's clear that ''they'' could just as easily be considered obnoxious in-laws themselves.
-->'''Gus:''' ''(holding a gun to Mrs. Chasseur's head)'' Nobody move or I'll shoot!\\
'''Connie:''' Go ahead, kill her.

* ''Film/EatDrinkManWoman'' has Madam Liang, who spends almost all of her screen time berating her daughters as burdensome and insulting the men they married. She is visibly elated when her daughter in America gets divorced, and vows to mount the divorce papers over the toilet.
* Robert De Niro's character Jack Byrnes in ''Film/MeetTheParents'' and its sequels is this to the Nth degree, trying everything to ruin the life of his daughter's latest fiancé (including shooting him full of TruthSerum and leaving him to deal with the subsequent MushroomSamba embarrassment) because he's a hyper-paranoid {{Jerkass}}. It gets to the point that you wonder why she doesn't say or do anything to stop it, particularly when it's mentioned he does this with every boy she brings home and that he [[AllTakeAndNoGive constantly keeps secrets from his own family and never fully trusts them, yet he keeps enforcing his "Circle Of Trust" system as a way to keep them from hiding secrets from him in the first place.]]
* An [[ImpliedTrope offscreen example]] in ''Film/GetSmart''. Dalip, TheBrute working for KAOS, has a hellish sister-in-law who's constantly undermining his relationship with his wife and trying to break them up, which causes him endless grief at home. Max manages to keep Dalip from killing him by giving him advice on how to keep his wife and her sister from spending too much time together without looking like the bad guy.
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' has Milton Berle hounded by his harridan mother-in-law (Ethel Merman) and hipster-doofus brother-in-law (Dick Shawn). In all fairness, his own wife (Dorothy Provine), faced with the opportunity, shows a desire to flee them all.
* ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' has the obnoxiousness of Jerry Lundegaard's father-in-law Wade Gustafson be one of the primary ways that Jerry's BatmanGambit turns into a ''very'' dark FawltyTowersPlot.
* ''Film/GuessWho'' features a white man dating a black woman whose father would rather have her dating a fellow African-American.

* In the Soviet comedy ''Film/KidnappingCaucasianStyle'', one of the kidnappers breaks out into a Middle East-themed song titled "If I Were a Sultan". The song starts with him saying that, if he were a sultan, he'd have three wives, who would do all the housework for him. Eventually, though, he has a realization that this would also mean having three mothers-in-law and comes to the conclusion that, if he were a sultan, then he wouldn't get married at all.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Maddie's sister Rachel doesn't like Tom, to put it nicely. Even ''before'' he became a fugitive, she would jump on any flimsy excuse to tell Maddie to divorce him. She becomes so obnoxious that she has to be ''[[BoundAndGagged tied up to a chair]]'' to stop her from being a nuisance. Her daughter Jojo on the other hand is a sweetie who loves her "Uncle Tommy" very much, perhaps even more than her mom, since she doesn't seem to particularly care that her aunt and uncle tied her mom to a chair.
* In ''Film/HotWater'', Creator/HaroldLloyd has to contend with three of 'em. Mother-in-law has "the nerve of a book agent, the disposition of [[CrankyLandlord a dyspeptic landlord]], and the heart of [[MeddlesomePatrolman a traffic cop]]," older brother-in-law is "[[LazyBum so lazy he gets up at four o'clock every morning so he'll have a longer day to loaf]]," and bratty younger brother-in-law has "a skin you love to touch - [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff with a strap]]."

* ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'' and its sequel ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'' show this type of relationship between Cletus Klump and his mother-in-law Ida Mae Jenson. They do nothing but insult each other and threaten to bodily harm each other and there's absolutely no indication that they truly care about each other deep down.
* ''Film/SorryWrongNumber'': Not only is Leona overbearing, but her father is too, managing to outmanoeuvre Henry whenever he tries to make a name for himself.

* ''Film/AChristmasCarol1999'': During one of the Christmas Past scenes, Mr. Fezziwig sings about a song about a man who wants to marry his beloved Rose, but does ''not'' want to marry her uncle and her brother and her sister and her mother and fat-headed cousins "all in rows, rows, rows, rows, rows."