Title: Parents (1989 film)
Content:  Parents is a 1989 American black comedy horror film directed by Bob Balaban and written by Christopher Hawthorne. It stars Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis and Bryan Madorsky. The film received a mixed response from critics and fared poorly commercially.
Title: Parents (2016 film)
Content:  Parents (Forældre) is a 2016 Danish drama film directed by Christian Tafdrup. Søren Malling won a Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as Kjeld.
Title: Parents (1989 film)
Content: Bryan Madorsky as Michael Laemle ; Randy Quaid as Nick Laemle ; Mary Beth Hurt as Lily Laemle ; Sandy Dennis as Millie Dew ; Juno Mills-Cockell as Sheila Zellner ; Kathryn Grody as Miss Baxter ; Deborah Rush as Gladys Zellner ; Graham Jarvis as Marty Zellner ; Helen Carscallen as Grandmother ; Warren Van Evera as Grandfather ; Wayne Robson as Lab Attendant 
Title: Parental Guidance (film)
Content:  Parental Guidance is a 2012 American family comedy film starring Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, and Tom Everett Scott and directed by Andy Fickman. It was released on December 25, 2012. It was the final 20th Century Fox film to be financed by Dune Entertainment as part of a deal with the studio; shortly after, the company merged with RatPac Entertainment and struck a financing deal with Warner Bros.
Title: Parents (2016 film)
Content: Bodil Jørgensen as Vibeke ; Søren Malling as Kjeld ; Miri Ann Beuschel as Vibeke ; Emilia Imperatore Bjørnvad as Sandra ; Anton Honik as Esben ; Elliott Crosset Hove as Kjeld 
Title: Dads (film)
Content:  Dads is an American documentary film directed by Bryce Dallas Howard in her directorial debut. The film follows a portrait of contemporary fatherhood. It features celebrity fathers including Ron Howard, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, Jimmy Kimmel, Will Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Ken Jeong and Kenan Thompson, and everyday men around the world. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2019. It was released on June 19, 2020, by Apple TV+.
Title: Fathers (film)
Content:  Fathers is a 2020 Cambodian drama film directed by Huy Yaleng. It was selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Title: Perfect Parents
Content:  Perfect Parents was a fictional 2006 British TV film written and directed by Joe Ahearne and produced by ITV Productions. It portrayed the dramatic story of a young girl named Lucy (Madeleine Garrood) that was brought up by her atheist parents, Stuart (Christopher Eccleston) and Alison (Susannah Harker) and their ensuing navigation of the ethical dilemmas that arose in their extreme efforts to secure her acceptance into a prestigious Catholic educational institution. The satirical film directed by Joe Ahearne outlined the prevalence of an increasing prioritisation of our children's education and protectionist parenting strategies in modern society. It emphasised the extreme lengths that parents will resort to in order to enable their child to be educated at prestigious schools such as St Mary of the Veil and to ensure a safe learning environment for them. The 
Title: Les Parents terribles (1980 film)
Content:  Les Parents terribles (The terrible Parents) is a French TV film from 1980. It was directed by Yves-André Hubert, starring Jean Marais, France Delahalle, and Lila Kedrova. It is based on the play with the same title by Jean Cocteau.
Title: Meet the Parents (1992 film)
Content:  Meet the Parents is a 1992 American independent comedy film written by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. Glienna also directed and starred in the film as the male protagonist, Greg. The film is about a young man meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time and the problems that arise when the girl's father takes a disliking to him. Filmed on a budget of approximately $100,000 and shot in and around Chicago, Meet the Parents was not widely distributed and did not earn a large profit at the box office upon its limited release. It did, however, garner some critical acclaim and film industry attention towards remaking the film on a bigger budget. Several years after the film's release, Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the independent film. After hiring screenwriter Jim Herzfeld to expand the script, a new version of Meet the Parents was filmed and released in October 2000. The 2000 version in turn inspired two movie sequels and two television series.

Question: Who was the director of Parents?
Answer: Bob Balaban.
Robert Elmer "Bob" Balaban.
Robert Elmer Balaban.