Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

Name: Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 17, 2025
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 75

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Apple TV+ | Release Date: October 17, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Comedy is hard. Marriage is harder. Jerry and Anne somehow juggled both. Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents, comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, exploring their impact both on popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life and art often blurred. In the process, Stiller turns the camera onComedy is hard. Marriage is harder. Jerry and Anne somehow juggled both. Ben Stiller tells the story of his parents, comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, exploring their impact both on popular culture and at home, where the lines between creativity, family, life and art often blurred. In the process, Stiller turns the camera on himself and his family to examine Jerry and Anne’s enormous influence on their lives, and the generational lessons we all can learn from those we love.… Expand

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Karen Gordon

Oct 23, 2025

It speaks to the legacy of things that are impossible to record: love, experience, encouragement, a sense of family and belonging that Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller gave to their children, and which continues through them into the next generation. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Oct 23, 2025

At least two ideas running through “Nothing Is Lost,” which is streaming on Apple TV, and which takes its title from a line in a play that Anne wrote, give it a complexity that usually eludes profile-of-an-artist documentaries. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Oct 24, 2025

Stiller’s approach is musical; his assembly of clips and photos is musical — poetic, not prosaic Read full review

RogerEbert.com Jourdain Searles

Oct 7, 2025

Stiller & Meara is a fascinating window into not only the history of this famous family but also the beautiful and punishing nature of performance itself. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 20, 2025

It’s a wonderful time capsule and a warm — with some reservations — remembrance of growing up in showbiz, the children of famous people who’d get stopped on the street, in the restaurant or wherever by strangers, even when the kids were the ones desperately wanting and needing their attention. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Oct 7, 2025

In Nothing Is Lost, Stiller uses the public image and private artifacts of the parents he and the world knew quite well, pondering the gap between public and private, along with his own difficulties following in his parents’ footsteps as an artist, a spouse and a father. Read full review

David Fear

Oct 28, 2025

What starts off as a tribute turns into an autopsy of a long marriage as seen by the kids who witnessed the best and worst of it, done with humor, anger, hindsight, and empathy. Then it makes a hard left and examines the way that legacies, even ones with the best intentions, have a way of shaping us and sometimes setting us back and always, always leaving us with lessons to repeat or refute. Read full review

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