Ben Stiller is examining his role as a father in his new documentary about his parents, Stiller & Meara.

Ben, 59, spends the majority of the AppleTV documentary revisiting his parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara’s ups and downs throughout their 61-year marriage before Anne’s death at age 85 in 2015. The actor recalls the pair balancing their working relationship as a comedic duo with their real-life romance as well as navigating being parents to him and his older sister, Amy Stiller. (Jerry died at age 92 in 2020.)

He also uses the film to own up to his own shortcomings as a dad and as a husband, discussing his marriage, separation and reconciliation with wife Christine Taylor as well as regrets over feeling like an absent father to their two kids, daughter Ella, 23, and son Quin, 20.

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