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Tropic Thunder
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A group of self-absorbed actors sets out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
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Tropic Thunder
By Carrie Rickey, INQUIRER MOVIE CRITIC
Posted 08/12/2008
Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder is raunchy, raucous and riotously funny. But so acutely self-conscious that the effect is one of a stand-up comedian furnishing color commentary on his own act. » Read more
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Tropic Thunder
Digs at the ‘art’ of stardom, wrapped in a war movie
By GARY THOMPSON, thompsg@phillynews.com
Posted 08/12/2008
When everything goes wrong on his big-budget movie set, a desperate director decides to go guerilla, taking his cast and hand-held cameras into the jungle, where they encounter real narco guerillas - whom the clueless actors initially mistake as extras. » Read more
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MPAA rating:
R
for pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material
Cast:
Bill Hader; Danny McBride; Jay Baruchel; Robert Downey Jr.; Jack Black; Brandon T. Jackson; Nick Nolte; Ben Stiller; Steve Coogan
Directed by:
Ben Stiller
On the web:
 
Tropic Thunder Official Site
Genre:
Comedy
Running time:
01:47
Release date:
2008
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