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Ben Stiller’s First Documentary on His Parents Sets Apple TV+ Debut Oct. 24

He began filming their New York apartment after Jerry Stiller’s 2020 death, shaping a memorial into a candid family reckoning.

Overview

  • Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost will stream on Apple TV+ on October 24 following a limited theatrical opening on October 17.
  • Stiller started the project in 2020 by documenting his parents’ apartment after his father died during COVID, when a memorial was not possible.
  • The film draws on home movies, cassette recordings, photos, newspaper clippings and newly discovered love letters to portray Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
  • Stiller says making the documentary helped him process his parents’ loss and confront his own parenting and marriage on camera.
  • Calling it a learning curve, Stiller describes documentary work as difficult because it requires living with uncertainty for a long time.