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Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller (Benjamin Edward Stiller) was born in November 30, 1965 in New York, NY. Son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Ben has followed his parents footsteps. He always had interest both in acting and directing since he was a kid. Ben started his big screen career appearing in the...
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (known outside of North America as Night at the Museum 2), is a 2009 American comedy film and the sequel to the 2006 adventure comedy film Night at the Museum. The film stars Ben Stiller, Amy Adams,...
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Along Came Polly
Along Came Polly is a 2004 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg.
Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) is an insurance underwriter who, since his job involves analyzing risk for insurance purposes, likes living life in complete...
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 comedy film written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The film is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s, particularly the then-new Action News format. It portrays a San Diego TV station...
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, commonly referred to as simply Dodgeball, is a 2004 American comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox and Red Hour Productions, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller,...
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Envy
Envy is a 2004 comedy film, starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black, and directed by Barry Levinson.
Tim and Nick (played by Stiller and Black) are best friends who are also neighbors and co-workers at 3M. Nick is constantly coming up with crazy ideas...
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Heavy Weights
Heavyweights is a 1995 comedy film about a fat camp for kids that is taken over by a fitness guru named Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller), Steven Brill's only PG-Rated Film.
As school ends for the summer, Gerald Garner (Aaron Schwartz) is sent by his...
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If Lucy Fell
If Lucy Fell is a 1996 romantic comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer and Ben Stiller. The film is rated R and runs for 92 minutes. It was released on DVD January 30, 2001.
Joe MacGonaughgill (Eric Schaeffer) and Lucy Ackerman (Sarah...
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Madagascar
Madagascar is a 2005 computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks Animation, and released in movie theaters on May 27, 2005. The film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are...
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a 2008 sequel to the 2005 film Madagascar, about the continuing adventures of Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo. It is directed by Eric Darnell and written by Etan Cohen.
It stars...
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Meet the Fockers
Meet the Fockers is a 2004 comedy film and a sequel to Meet the Parents starring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, and Teri Polo. Both are directed by Jay Roach, previously known as the director of Austin Powers films. In addition to De Niro, Stiller,...
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Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Greg Glienna and directed by Jay Roach of Austin Powers fame. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the film chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good hearted but...
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Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum is a 2006 American adventure comedy film based on the 1993 children's book with the same name by Milan Trenc. It follows a divorced father trying to settle down, impress his son, and find his destiny. He applies for a job as a...
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Permanent Midnight
Permanent Midnight is a 1998 movie directed by David Veloz starring Ben Stiller. The film is based on Jerry Stahl's autobiographical book of the same name, and tells the story of Stahl's rise from a small-time television writer to his success as a...
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Reality Bites
Reality Bites is a 1994 film written by Helen Childress and featuring the directorial debut of Ben Stiller. It stars Stiller, Winona Ryder, and Ethan Hawke, with major supporting roles played by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn. The film was shot on...
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Starsky & Hutch
Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips. The film stars Ben Stiller as David Starsky and Owen Wilson as Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and is a spoof adaptation of the original television series of the same name from the...
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The Cable Guy
The Cable Guy is a 1996 black comedy film featuring, and directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. The film also features Leslie Mann, Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Kyle Gass. It was released in North America on Friday,...
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The Royal Tenenbaums
The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 dramedy film directed by Wes Anderson about three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentric father leaves them in their adolescent years....
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There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary is a 1998 romantic comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter. Starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller, it is a combination of romantic comedy and gross-out film.
This sleeper hit was the...
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Used Guys
Used Guys was a scheduled 2007 film that was to be directed by Jay Roach about the future of mankind. As women run the Earth, two obsolete pleasure clones (Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller) go on a desperate search for the male nirvana known as Mantopia....
Zero Effect
Zero Effect is a 1998 feature film written and directed by Jake Kasdan (son of famed Hollywood writer/director Lawrence Kasdan). It stars Bill Pullman as 'the world's most private detective' Daryl Zero and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo....
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Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 comedy film directed by Ben Stiller. The films concept is based on the Bret Easton Ellis book Glamorama, with elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1...
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The Hardy Men
Hardy Men is an upcoming 2009 comedy film starring Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller based on The Hardy Boys series created by Franklin W. Dixon.
There have been no plot announcements made yet.
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 American action satire comedy film directed and produced by Ben Stiller. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated writer and...
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Danny Roane: First Time Director
Danny Roane: First Time Director is a 2006 comedy film written, directed by and starring Andy Dick, Jack Black and Mo Collins. This independent production is a documentary mixed with a mockumentary on Dick's struggle on making a film.
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Mystery Men
Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film based on a Dark Horse comic book series feature in Flaming Carrot Comics, directed by TV commercial director Kinka Usher. It starred William H. Macy, Ben Stiller, and Hank Azaria as a trio of lesser superheroes with...
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Your Friends & Neighbors
Your Friends & Neighbors is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, and Ben Stiller in an ensemble cast. This film was the first to be...
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Meet the Little Focker
Little Fockers is an upcoming comedy film and sequel to Meet the Fockers and Meet the Parents starring Robert De Niro, Raven-Symoné, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Blythe Danner. Filming is scheduled to...
Keeping the Faith
Keeping the Faith is a 2000 comedy-drama film, written by Stuart Blumberg and directed by Edward Norton. This film was released by Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Triple Threat Talent on April 5, 2000.
The film is...
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The Mirror
The Mirror is a 2007 American comedy/drama written by Scott Smith. The film is a cannily-written comedy about Stiller, who awakens one day to find his mirror image passing himself off as the real star
The Heartbreak Kid
The Heartbreak Kid is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name starring Ben Stiller. The film was directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly and also stars Malin Åkerman, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, and Carlos Mencia. The screenplay was written by...
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Fresh Horses
Fresh Horses is a 1988 drama film starring Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald, directed by David Anspaugh.
A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets...
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Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character. This film is number 97 on Bravo's 100 funniest movies.
Happy Gilmore (Sandler) is an aspiring ice hockey player who...
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Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit is a 1987 comedy film starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller, Ben Stiller and Keith David. The plot centers around a student named Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) who is planning to go on a vacation in the Caribbean with his rich...
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Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson and Nigel Havers. Empire of...
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Stella
Stella is a 1990 American drama film produced by The Samuel Goldwyn Company and released by Touchstone Pictures. The screenplay by Robert Getchell is the third feature film adaptation of the 1920 novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty.
The...
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Elvis Stories
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Highway to Hell
Highway to Hell is a 1992 horror comedy film directed by Ate de Jong starring Chad Lowe and Kristy Swanson. Charlie Sykes (Lowe) and his girlfriend Rachel Clark (Swanson) run away to Las Vegas to get married. Along the way Rachel is kidnapped by a...
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Flirting with Disaster
For the album by rock band Molly Hatchet, see Flirtin' with Disaster.
Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 American comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell about a young father's search for his biological parents. The film stars Ben Stiller...
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That's Adequate
That's Adequate is a 1989 mockumentary documenting a fictional Hollywood studio, Adequate Film Studios. Narrated and hosted by Tony Randall, the film features an all-star cast including James Coco, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, and...
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Black and White
Black and White is a 1999 film directed by James Toback, starring Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Robert Downey Jr., Allan Houston and a number of rap musicians, namely members of the Wu-Tang Clan (Raekwon, Method Man,...
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The Suburbans
The Suburbans is a 1999 drama that satirizes the 1980s revival hype around the turn of the century. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Donal Lardner Ward, who also co-wrote and directed the movie.
The Suburbans premiered at the Sundance Film Festival...
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The Independent
The Independent is a mockumentary comedy film made in 2000, directed by Stephen Kessler, starring Jerry Stiller as an independent film maker, who makes little-known B movies with titles like Twelve Angry Men and a Baby. The film spoofs independent...
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Orange County
Orange County is a 2002 United States comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 14, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake...
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Run Ronnie Run
Run Ronnie Run is a movie spin-off from the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show. The recurring character Ronnie Dobbs (David Cross) is the focal point of the movie. It was directed by Troy Miller.
Ronnie Dobbs, a redneck petty criminal whose scams were...
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Sledge: The Untold Story
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School for Scoundrels
School for Scoundrels is a 2006 comedy film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder, and directed by Todd Phillips. The film is based on the 1960 British film of the same name. The film was released on September 29, 2006.
The plot mirrors that of...
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Pauly Shore Is Dead
Pauly Shore Is Dead is an American comedy/Mockumentary motion picture released in 2003 starring comedian Pauly Shore. It is a cameo-filled movie in which Shore (playing himself) fakes his own death in order to revitalize his fading career.
The film,...
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In search of Ted Demme
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The Marc Pease Experience
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The Marc Pease Experience
The Marc Pease Experience is a 2009 comedy film directed by Todd Louiso and written by Louiso and Jacob Koskoff. Shot primarily in and around Wilmington and New Hanover County, North Carolina in March–April 2007, the film is centered around Marc...
King of the Elves
King of the Elves is an upcoming animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film will be directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker. The film will also be produced by John Lasseter and Chuck Williams and is based on the story by...
The Prince and Me
The Prince and Me is a 2004 motion picture, directed by Martha Coolidge, and starring Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, and Ben Miller, with Miranda Richardson, James Fox, and Alberta Watson. The film features a cameo by Eddie Irvine, a retired Formula One...
Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire
Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire is a 1999 animated film directed by Richard Goleszowski and produced by BBC Bristol and Comic Relief. The film is the first of a series of productions featuring Robbie the Reindeer, a reindeer moulded on Rudolph...
Working Trash
Working Tra$h is a made for television film, from 1990. It was one of the first of such made for the burgeoning Fox Network. The film stars George Carlin and also features a young Ben Stiller in his first leading role.
Next of Kin
Next of Kin is a 1989 action film directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson. The screenplay was based on a story of the same title, both written by Michael Jenning.
Truman Gates (Patrick Swayze), a Kentucky native raised in...
