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Biography, autobiography and Apple-supported family therapy come together in Ben Stiller‘s uneven but potent documentary, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, premiering at the New York Film Festival ahead of a launch on Apple TV+ later this month.  Easily Stiller’s most personal film as a director, it works as an interesting complement to Mariska Hargitay’s recent HBO documentary, My Mom …

To an older generation, they were Stiller & Meara, the comedy duo with an endless reserve of gently absurd sketches on The Ed Sullivan Show. To a younger generation, he was the fulminating father of George Costanza on Seinfeld. To Ben Stiller, of course, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were something far more intimate: his lovable but deeply complicated parents. …