Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, 2025 - ★★★★

thunt’s review published on Letterboxd: I really enjoyed Stiller and Mira, nothing changes or you'll never be forgotten something like that. It was a great documentary. It starts out with a story about Ben Stiller's parents and their incredible apartment in New York City that they lived in seemingly their entire lives. Then it goes into more detail about their interesting comedic Act, which I'd always heard referenced as, Oh, of course, you know Jerry Stiller. He's from Stiller and Mira, but as a younger person, I'd never seen their act, never seen the Ed Sullivan Show, except the Beatles version, and was interested and entertained to hear their early comedy, to see how being the kind of fighting Bickersons as a couple, as an act, as their job, influenced their lives, how they were practiced fighting and then really fighting And then practicing again and how with a stress and strain, pretending to fight, put on their lives, but at the same time, it was their act, it was how they made their money, it was how they made their fame and their success. So it brought them a lot of things, but also made it hard on them. Was interesting to see what it might have been like for Ben Stiller to be raised by actors, and then the interesting expression that Ben Stiller's daughter understands it but and has things in common with Ben, but they don't have the same things in common with her mother, who was not who was an actor and an actor parent, but was not raised by actor parents, Ben and her both have a nice laugh about that. A really fun, good documentary, thoughtful, romantic and teaches you things, teaches you how uptight Jerry Stiller was, how dedicated he was to his success and how he was going to get there through hard work. On the other hand, how naturally talented Mira was and how effortlessly she made her comedy, and the comparison of the two, ironically enough, I would not know Mira very much unless, except for the documentary and Jerry Stiller, of course, we all know as George's father from Seinfeld. In the end, he becomes more famous than her, and I think she was kind of happy for it, because success meant so much to him, and he worked so incredibly hard, and it was neat to see, whereas he was more of the character getting yelled at character being told to shut up during their act. He reversed it in Seinfeld, and he became the character who told people to shut up and sit down a fun documentary. I caught it on Apple, plus saw it was available, watched it almost instantly, and recalled, of course, hearing early versions of these stories on Howard Stern, which was featured in the beginning of the documentary. Thanks for reading. You. Transcribed by otter.ai