Beautiful Trailer For Ben Stiller's Documentary Tribute to His Parents STILLER & MEARA: NOTHING IS LOST
Apple TV+ has released a beautiful trailer for the documentary Stiller& Meara: Nothing is Lost, a loving tribute to the comedy duo from their filmmaker/actor son, Ben Stiller.
In the doc, Ben sits down with his sister to go through the footage, photos, letters, cassettes, and home videos that documented the lives of their hilarious parents. He interviews friends and family closest to the pair to piece together what they knew, and didn’t know, about the couple and their careers and personal relationship.
Stiller, who directs Severance at Apple, said of the project, “I feel very fortunate to be partnering once again with the incredible team at Apple TV+, this time on a project that is very personal to me and my family.
It’s exciting to finally get to share it with audiences; and a great honor to celebrate my parents, both as I knew them growing up, and as I’ve come to know them in new ways through the making of this film.”
Anne Meara died in 2015 at the age of 85; her husband Jerry Stiller died in 2020 at the age of 92. Following his parents’ passing, Ben “dug into the vast treasure trove of recordings, footage, letters, and other ephemera with which they documented their personal and professional lives,” the New York Film Festival writes in its program.
“These extraordinary archives are the foundation of this immensely moving—and, of course, very funny—documentary, beautifully directed by Stiller and edited by Adam Kurnitz (The Velvet Underground, NYFF59), which charts, with love and candor, the challenges and insecurities that are part of any show-business family’s essential makeup.”
Along with siblings Ben and Amy, the documentary feature’s Ben’s wife, actress Christine Taylor Stiller, and a Stiller & Meara pal – actor Christopher Walken.
“Your father was a kind of a saint,” Walken tells Stiller in the trailer. “Your mom kind of scared me a little bit. She’d look at me, and I could tell she knows you’re up to no good.”
The doc premieres at the New York Film Festival on October 5, then opens in select theaters on October 17 and will begin streaming on Apple TV+ on October 24. Watch the trailer below: