Receiving a rapturous reception at the New York Film Festival earlier this month, Ben Stiller’s is an affectionate but clear-eyed portrait of the actor-filmmaker’s late parents, US showbiz royalty Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Pieced together through performance footage, TV interviews, home movies and long kept correspondence – Jerry Stiller was an inveterate hoarder of professional and personal mementoes – the film also emerges as an insightful look at how the younger Stiller has taken on the passions and foibles of his folks. Here’s some documentary gold from the Stiller family archive.

1. Ben Stiller’s mum is not a fan

Stiller may have found fame creating iconic comedic characters such as Derek Zoolander, White Goodman and Gaylord Focker, but his mother Anne Meara never liked the

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