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Tropic Thunder [Director's Cut]

Actor(s): Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey, Jr., Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan
Director(s): Ben Stiller
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: NR
Content Advisory: Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Movie Release: 2008
DVD Release: 11/18/2008
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned
Edition: Director's Cut
Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 2
Number of Discs: 2
Run Time: 2 hrs 0 mins
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Members Wishing: 44
Genres: Comedy, Action Comedy, Showbiz Comedy
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DVD Synopsis

Ben Stiller's satirical look at Hollywood, Tropic Thunder concerns the production of an epic Vietnam War film that quickly derails thanks to the giant egos of everyone involved in the production. Stiller stars as Tugg Speedman, an action hero trying to segue out of that genre. Jack Black plays Jeff Portnoy, a drug-addicted fat comic also attempting to change his image by taking on such a serious film. They star alongside Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), one of the world's most awarded actors, and a man who insists on immersing himself totally in a role. In this case, that means Lazarus has had his skin dyed in order to portray an African-American soldier. After their outrageous behavior lands the film's director, Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan), in very hot water with producer Les Grossman (Tom Cruise), Cockburn takes the advice of grizzled Vietnam vet Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte); in order to gain control of his performers, Cockburn drops the actors off in the jungle, planning to film the movie guerrilla-style with hidden cameras. When the group stumbles upon a heroin production camp, the actors are unaware that they are in very real danger. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Actors

Ben Stiller - Tugg Speedman
Jack Black - Jeff Portnoy
Robert Downey, Jr. - Kirk Lazarus
Nick Nolte - Four Leaf Tayback
Steve Coogan - Damien Cockburn

Member Movie Reviews

Frank E. (realartist) from HENDERSONVLLE, NC wrote on 7/20/2009...

0 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Content advisory states "violence profanity, sexual situations, drug content...welll...pretty much covers all the deadly sins, huh? I am a fan of Ben Stiller and Robert Downey jr - and although there is some laughable bull s___ happening...it really qualifies as vile & stupid to the point of ludicrous ( not funny, that is )= bloody, and disgusting for anyone with a moral compass.
Movies in the 50's and 60's had to have SOME socially redeeming value...some lesson to learn from it all, even though sex and violence may have been part of the story. Here the driving force could be summed up "socially redeeming value ; shoshally sheeming shalyu-the sort of Jewish play on words remindful to us as redolent body waste.
There is a bit of redeeming value deep under the surface of this fetid stinking script : It is a 'play within a play' so to speak; with perhaps the mind numbingly vile and self absorbed cruelty and lunacy of Hollywood movie production personnel itself "On Trial" here. If the people behind movies are anything like what is depicted here, we now understand how so much relentless effort there seems to be focused upon pushing America to its lowest depths of depravity in the shortest time frame possible....wThis movie happens to be the most egregious example of demonic depravity behind this inexcusably toxic pig swill coming from movie producers today. Pigs would turn their noses up at it...but apparently, insipid youth still go out and spends several hundred million dollars a year exposing themselves to this criminal mind putrifaction. As a disabled combat veteran of Viet Nam I am appalled at this shameless and foolish exploitation of the genre.