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Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller
Born 30 Nov 1965, in New York

Wise words: "My father is always telling me to take care of myself and get a lot of rest. He's always saying, 'Sleep will fix anything. Go take a nap'. I think he's right. I find when I get frazzled, if I get a good night's sleep, I feel much better about things".



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Ben Stiller - news / articles


  • Stiller auctions off walk-on movie role - 16 November 2011
    -Ben Stiller is auctioning a walk-on role in his upcoming comedy Neighborhood Watch to raise money for charity.-The winning bidder will be invited to the Atlanta, Georgia set in December (11) to shoot a scene alongside Stiller and his castmates Vince Vaughn and Jonah


  • Stiller pens fourth Fockers movie - 18 December 2010
    -Ben Stiller has written a fourth movie to add to the Meet The Parents franchise - and hopes to start shooting the film in 2011.- -The original was released in 2000, with the sequel - Meet The Fockers - hitting screens four years later (04).- - The pictures, starrin


  • Stiller and Coogan reunite for TV show - 5 November 2010
    -Funnymen Ben Stiller and Steve Coogan are reteaming for a new U.S. TV show.- -The Meet The Parents star and Coogan first appeared alongside each other in 2006's Night At The Museum, before going on to film the sequel together.- - The actors teamed up again for 2008

Ben Stiller - what members say


  • There's Something About Mary
  • There's Something About Mary review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 1.0 stars I'd rather eat glass 30 August 2007
    ...s very attractive, but that is never going to be sufficient to salvage a movie. Ben Stiller struggles rigorously to succeed within the plot, and is evidently very capable,...   Read customer review
  • Meet The Parents
  • Meet The Parents review by from SANDERSTEAD
    Rated - 5.0 stars 7 August 2004
    ...illiantly as well as straight acting. Just adore the out takes of this movie - Ben Stiller just has to look at Robert De Niro and they are both laughing! Brilliant! The...   Read customer review
  • Zoolander
  • Zoolander review by A customer from Birmingham, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars very Very Good 10 February 2004
    ... subtle jokes that can be extremely funny if you pick them up, if your a fan of Ben Stiller this won't dissapoint one of his best films in my opinion!...   Read customer review

Ben Stiller - filmography


  • Neighbourhood Watch (2012)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Vince Vaughn
    Director: Akiva Schaffer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Four everyday suburban guys come together to form a neighborhood watch group, but only as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives, one night a week. When they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 2 members
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  • Tower Heist (2011)
    Starring: Téa Leoni,  Eddie Murphy,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 359 members
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  • Greenberg - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Juno Temple,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Noah Baumbach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A fortysomething New Yorker in the throes of a midlife crisis falls for his brother's assistant while house-sitting for his sibling in Los Angeles. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is single and jobless. He's at a crucial crossroads in life when his successful family-man brother summons him to Los ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 45 members
    Not available for rental
  • Greenberg (2010)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Juno Temple,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Noah Baumbach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A fortysomething New Yorker in the throes of a midlife crisis falls for his brother's assistant while house-sitting for his sibling in Los Angeles. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is single and jobless. He's at a crucial crossroads in life when his successful family-man brother summons him to Los ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 244 members
    Not available for rental
  • Meet the Parents - Little Fockers on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Robert De Niro,  Owen Wilson
    Director: Peter Segal
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam (Teri Polo) have been together for ten years, and now they're the proud parents of two adorable twins. But money is tight, and in order to keep his family afloat, devoted nurse Greg takes a second job working for a drug company. But that development doesn't sit well with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 25,938 members
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  • Tropic Thunder on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Trieu Tran
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben Stiller. Jack Black. Robert Downey, Jr. Comedy fans can start drooling immediately at the thought of these three funnymen joining forces in TROPIC THUNDER. The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 71,315 members
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  • Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Colin Hanks,  Meat Loaf,  Kyle Gass
    Director: Liam Lynch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jack Black and Kyle Gass's Tenacious D began life on an amusing yet little-seen TV series about the band, which featured an array of comedy songs and glimpses into the personal lives of this hard-working outfit. But Black and Gass always had ambitions to take the Tenacious D concept further, so ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 24,427 members
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  • Roast Of William Shatner on DVD (2006)
    Starring: William Shatner,  Andy Dick,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Joel Gallen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy Central garnered some of its highest-ever ratings when it invited the legendary William Shatner to be the recipient of one its time-honoured celebrity roasts. The iconic over-actor proved to be a good sport as he endured the hilarious, though affectionate, barbs of a star-studded roster of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 113 members
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  • Madagascar on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Chris Rock,  David Schwimmer
    Director: Eric Darnell,  Tom McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The friendship between a New York City lion and zebra is tested when fate brings them out to the unforgiving wilderness in this computer-animated feature. Chris Rock does the voice of Marty the Zebra, whose longing to explore beyond his cushy Central Park Zoo boundaries is the impetus that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 64,753 members
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  • Starsky And Hutch - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Owen Wilson,  Vince Vaughn
    Director: Todd Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hot on the heels of his hilarious college romp OLD SCHOOL, director Todd Phillips returns with a film that mocks the television cop dramas of the 1970s. Based on the crime-fighting television series of the same name, STARSKY & HUTCH follows the exploits of two west coast detectives. David Starsky (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,789 member
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  • Meet The Fockers on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ben Stiller,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Jay Roach
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Following the knee-slapping hit MEET THE PARENTS, director Jay Roach once again keeps audiences roaring with laughter as he presents MEET THE FOCKERS. This time, young engaged couple Pam (Teri Polo) and Greg (Ben Stiller) are getting their parents together a few months before the wedding. Greg ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 93,296 members
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  • Envy on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Jack Black,  Rachel Weisz
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Sensible, hardworking Tim is climbing the managerial ladder, while daydreamer Nick can't seem to stay focused on the tasks at hand. But all of that changes when one of Nick's seemingly hairbrained ideas--a spray that makes dog poop disappear--takes off, making him filthy rich. Rather than leaving ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 15,257 members
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  • Starsky And Hutch on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Owen Wilson,  Vince Vaughn
    Director: Todd Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detective David Starsky is the most dedicated undercover cop working the mean streets of Bay City, California. Maniacally devoted to his job, when he's on duty no crime goes unpunished--and he's always on duty. And that's a good thing, because he has some metaphorically big shoes to fill: his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 54,674 members
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  • Our House on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eileen Essel,  Ben Stiller,  Drew Barrymore
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Danny DeVito directs Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in this devilish black comedy reminiscent of DeVito's THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN and THE WAR OF THE ROSES. Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 15,876 members
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  • Pauly Shore Is Dead on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Pauly Shore,  Ben Stiller,  Vince Vaughn
    Director: Pauly Shore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    PAULY SHORE IS DEAD is a good idea both on paper and on film, a movie that answers the question 'what ever happened to Pauly Shore?' with a satirical, sometimes self-deprecating, and often hilarious honesty. Tracing the rise of the comedic it-boy and his subsequent fall from favour, Pauly ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,062 member
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  • Our House - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Drew Barrymore,  Eileen Essell
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Danny DeVito directs Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in this devilish black comedy reminiscent of DeVito's THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN and THE WAR OF THE ROSES. Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 166 members
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  • The Independent on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jonathan Katz,  Billy Burke,  Andy Dick
    Director: Stephen Kessler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Morty Fineman (Jerry Stiller) is an independent schlock film producer-star-director with a problem. He's broke, and he can't finance his new film about a singing serial killer. The bank offers to buy his film library (a whopping 427 films!) but they're only willing to pay him $8 a pound. We've ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 540 members
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  • Zoolander - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Owen Wilson,  Will Ferrell
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) isn't smart, but he looks "really, really good." An empty-headed yet kindhearted male model, the self-absorbed Derek becomes an unwitting pawn in a international assassination plot masterminded by oddball fashion dictator Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell). Meanwhile, the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 22 members
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • Zoolander on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Owen Wilson,  Will Ferrell
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) isn't smart, but he looks "really, really good." An empty-headed yet kindhearted male model, the self-absorbed Derek becomes an unwitting pawn in a international assassination plot masterminded by oddball fashion dictator Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell). Meanwhile, the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 29,075 members
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  • The Royal Tenenbaums on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anjelica Huston,  Gene Hackman,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Wes Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In their youth, the Tenenbaums--an eccentric New York family--were extraordinary. They were all geniuses. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful litigator. His wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) raised their children to be ambitious, entrepreneurial, and creative--then published an acclaimed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 25,008 members
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  • Meet The Parents on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ben Stiller,  Blythe Danner
    Director: Jay Roach
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    MEET THE PARENTS stars Ben Stiller as the unfortunately named Greg Focker, a neurotic nurse intent on marrying his girlfriend, Pam (Teri Polo). But when the couple visits Pam's family home for her sister's wedding, he must first win the approval of her father, Jack (Robert De Niro), a protective ex-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 42,790 members
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  • Keeping The Faith on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ron Rifkin,  Holland Taylor,  Rena Sofer
    Director: Edward Norton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In actor Edward Norton's directorial debut, Brian (Norton), a priest, and his best friend, Jake (Ben Stiller), a rabbi, both fall in love with their long-lost childhood friend, Anna (Jenna Elfman), who has returned to Manhattan to pursue her hectic business career. However, Brian has taken a vow of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,173 members
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  • Black And White on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Jared Leto,  Ben Stiller
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    With BLACK AND WHITE, writer-director James Toback (FINGERS, TWO GIRLS AND A GUY) confronts the topic of race head on--most specifically, the influence of black urban hip-hop culture on white America. Set in New York City as the 1990s wind to a close, the film is told in a broad, episodic fashion, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 882 members
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  • Zero Effect (1998)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Ben Stiller,  Ryan O'Neal
    Director: Jake Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Daryl Zero is a hero - but a hilariously dysfunctional one. A loner who's scared to go out socially, he only has his work, and a sharply-honed power of impartial observation, which has sealed his reputation as the world's most effective criminal investigator! Zero and his fast-talking front man, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 85 members
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  • Permanent Midnight on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Elizabeth Hurley,  Maria Bello
    Director: David Veloz
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Based on the memoirs of Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer who was reduced to working at a McDonalds' drive-thru window by his crippling addiction to heroin. Ben Stiller gives an acclaimed performance as Stahl in this gritty film ripe with darkly comedic moments. Stahl himself has a cameo as a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 798 members
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  • The Cable Guy on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Matthew Broderick,  George Segal
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Originally planned as a silly vehicle for Chris Farley, in the hands of director Ben Stiller and star Jim Carrey, The Cable Guy became an opportunity for Carrey to flex some of his darker comedic muscles as stalker Chip Douglas. Matthew Broderick plays Steven, an average Joe who is forlorn over his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 9,905 members
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  • Flirting With Disaster on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Patricia Arquette,  Tea Leoni
    Director: David O. Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer-director David O. Russell follows up his dark independent comedy SPANKING THE MONKEY with this hilarious romp about a man who goes on a quest to find his biological parents. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller), a new father, is convinced that he won't be able to give his son a name until he reunites ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,892 member
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  • If Lucy Fell on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker,  Eric Schaeffer,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Eric Schaeffer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joe and Lucy are best friends and roommates in a small Manhattan apartment...and she's about to turn 30. So Lucy won't stop reminding Joe of their pact to jump off a bridge if they haven't found true love by the time she hits the big three-oh. Joe reluctantly agrees to honour the agreement. But ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 569 members
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  • Heavyweights on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Aaron Schwartz,  Jeffrey Tambor
    Director: Steven Brill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A group of adolescents are enjoying a wild summer at 'fat camp'... until a neurotic fitness fanatic buys the camp and imposes an absurd diet and exercise regime. The kids must gain control before their summer wastes away...
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 672 members
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  • Reality Bites on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Winona Ryder,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ben Stiller made his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers. It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,556 members
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  • Stella (1990)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  John Goodman,  Trini Alvarado
    Director: John Erman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Brassy barmaid Stella Claire charms the pants off blueblood Stephen Dallas, and eventually they have a child. Because of their different values and personalities, Stella and Stephen do not marry. She, however, decides to raise their daughter, Jenny, by herself. Although the feisty mother and Jenny ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 50 members
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  • Empire of the Sun - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  John Malkovich,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Steven Spielberg's 'Empire Of The Sun', based on the autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, stars Christian Bale as Jim Graham, a British schoolboy separated from his upper-class colonial parents when the Japanese sweep into Shanghai during World War II. Temporarily orphaned, Jim attaches himself ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 50 members
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • Empire of the Sun on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  John Malkovich,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Steven Spielberg's 'Empire Of The Sun', based on the autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, stars Christian Bale as Jim Graham, a British schoolboy separated from his upper-class colonial parents when the Japanese sweep into Shanghai during World War II. Temporarily orphaned, Jim attaches himself ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 9,393 members
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Ben Stiller facts

5 most recent films

Neighbourhood Watch - 4.5 stars
Madagascar 3 - Europe's Most Wanted - 4.5 stars
Tower Heist - 3.5 stars
Tower Heist - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Meet the Parents - Little Fockers - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
Empire of the Sun - 4.0 stars
Madagascar 2 - Escape to Africa - 4.0 stars
There's Something About Mary - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Stella - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Ben Stiller Show - 2.5 stars
Greenberg - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Zoolander - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Empire of the Sun - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Neighbourhood Watch - 4.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Owen Wilson - 16 times - show films
Maria Bello - 9 times - show films
Elizabeth Hurley - 9 times - show films
David Schwimmer - 8 times - show films
Jack Black - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Veloz - 9 times - show films
Eric Darnell - 6 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 5 times - show films
Peter Farrelly - 5 times - show films
Bobby Farrelly - 5 times - show films