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Documentary  •  2025  •  98 min  •  Adults (18+)

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025)

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Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.6

Overview

Ben Stiller directs this documentary portrait of his parents, comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, tracing their 62-year marriage, their rise through American entertainment, and the family life that ran parallel to their careers. The Leans Traditional label follows naturally from that premise. The film's gravitational center is a long marriage treated as the bedrock of everything else, including the creative partnership, the family dynamics, and the generational inheritance passed to Ben and his sister Amy. Religion surfaces gently, as the couple's Jewish-Catholic background was part of their public persona for decades. There is no political framing and no identity-politics throughline. This is a family memoir shaped as a comedy history.

Starring Cast

Jerry Stiller  •   Anne Meara  •   Ben Stiller

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: High

The documentary examines the intertwined professional and personal lives of comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, focusing on how their careers shaped family dynamics across generations.

Diversity: Low
Confidence: High

The documentary offers an intimate portrait of the Stiller-Meara comedy duo and their family life, focusing on their marriage, careers, and the generational impact on their son without any emphasis on identity politics or recast roles.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: High

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost centers on Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara's 62-year marriage as the foundation of a multigenerational family story, tracing the love, tensions, and sense of belonging they passed to their children and grandchildren through intimate home footage and reflections.

Christianity: Positive
Confidence: High

The film presents Anne Meara’s Irish-Catholic heritage as an integral and warmly regarded part of the couple’s shared life, framing it with affection and respect.

Judaism: Positive
Confidence: High

Jerry Stiller’s Jewish background is depicted as a foundational element of his identity and marriage, treated with nuance, dignity, and narrative sympathy.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost centers on the lives and careers of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara along with their family, presenting no LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost offers no transgender characters or themes. The documentary centers on Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara’s marriage, comedy partnership, and family reflections through home footage and personal archives.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost is a documentary that portrays comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara according to their established historical genders with no recast or altered characters.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost is a documentary focused on the real lives of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. No characters from prior source material or historical records are recast with performers of a different race.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High

Not depicted.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.1
The Movie Database logo
6.5

Critic Ratings

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9.3
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7.5

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