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STILLER AND MEARA NOTHING IS LOST – Review by Lynn Venhaus

October 28, 2025October 31, 2025 Lynn Venhaus anne meara, ben stiller, documentary, jerry stiller, Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost

Comedy legends Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller were funny together – and separately – as their lengthy career attests to, but they were also married with children. More than a loving tribute to his parents, Ben Stiller has crafted a reflective, deeply personal piece of how show business and real-life intersects, sometimes not in the best ways. It’s like a family therapy session, and not a warm and fuzzy, sanitized celebrity portrait.

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ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA – Commentary by Martha P. Nochimson

February 16, 2019 Martha P. Nochimson (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments ben stiller, benicio del toro, escape at dannemore, Patricia Arquette, paul dano

Ultimately, this show about brief, ambiguous escapes is reminiscent of the fatalism of the early 20th century American naturalist novels in which the plight of trapped characters becomes a microcosm of the American macrocosm, a culture depicted gloomily as the habitation of beings with no real place either in nature or culture, no core identity, no coherence outside of the deadening rules and conventions society has invented. This is a vision that is too bleak for my taste, but I respect it because it goes well beyond being the same old familiar jailbreak story. It has a perspective.

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