Ben Stiller Recalls Feeling 'Disconnected from My Family' During His Separation from Wife Christine Taylor in New Doc Alexandra SchonfeldOctober 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM 0 Bruce Glikas/WireImage Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor with their kids Quin and Ella in 2019.
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Alexandra SchonfeldOctober 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Ben Stiller's new documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost looks back at the Severance director's childhood growing up in New York City with his famous parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
Stiller made the decision to make the film following his father's death in 2020 when he and his sister Amy were getting ready to sell their childhood home
While examining his parents' relationship in the film, Ben also gives a glimpse into his marriage to Christine Taylor
Following the death of his father — and amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Ben Stiller found himself looking for answers.
The actor and director, 59, whose documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost premiered at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 5, 2025, says he began toying with the idea of making the film about his parents, comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, after his father's death in 2020.
Ben, who shares two children with his wife Christine Taylor, says while he was in a steady place with his career, the same could not be said for his personal life at the time.
"My career had been going along for a long time but things actually weren't great in my personal life," Ben, who was separated from Taylor for a few years starting in 2017, admits in the documentary. "I just felt out of balance and unhappy and kind of disconnected from my family, from my kids and just kind of a little bit lost."
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Quin Stiller, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and Ella Stiller at the 'Zoolander 2' premiere in 2016.
It was during this time that he realized there was something to be learned.
"I started to think about my parents and all the stress and tension I remember seeing as a kid and the pressure when they were working together and how they stayed together through it," he says, later concluding: "I think I wanted to somehow understand how they did it."
After Ben and Christine were spotted together multiple times after their split, the couple announced they were reuniting in February 2022.
While the documentary is filled with archival footage captured by the family as well as audio recordings of everything from his parents' comedy rehearsals to disagreements between the longtime couple, Ben and his sister Amy share that there was seemingly no memento too small for their dad to hold on to.
From scuba masks to newspaper clippings to detailed love notes from the early days of their parents' courtship, Jerry kept it all.
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Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in 1981.
After first meeting in 1953, Jerry and Meara wed not long after. They were married for more than 60 years at the time of Meara's death in 2015. The comedic duo became popular in the 1960s, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show 36 times, and in 2007 were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They worked steadily for much of their life, pursuing opportunities outside of their act including Jerry's beloved role as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld and Meara's off-Broadway show After-Play.
Following his father's death, Ben told the Today show: "They found each other and they were there for each other. Not to get too sappy, but I feel like they're connected again."
After its Oct. 5, 2025 premiere at the New York Film Festival, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost will screen in select theaters beginning on Oct. 17 and will be available to stream Apple TV+ on Oct. 24.
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