Ben Stiller Shares Why He's 'Grateful' for Wife Christine After Working with Her on New Family Doc (Exclusive) Alexandra SchonfeldOctober 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM 0 LISA O'CONNOR/AFP via Getty Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor in March 2025.
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Ben Stiller is sharing what he learned through the process of making his new documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
In the film, out Oct. 17 in select theaters and available to stream on Apple TV Oct. 24, the Severance director looks back at his parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara's marriage and how it compares to his own with wife Christine Taylor
"There were so many elements in our relationship that in a way mirrored my parents' relationship that I wasn't even aware of," Stiller told PEOPLE at the Oct. 5 New York Film Festival premiere of the documentary
Ben Stiller is reflecting on how far he and his wife Christine Taylor have come.
At the Oct. 5 New York Film Festival premiere of his new documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, the Severance director opened up about what he learned about both his parents' relationship and his own marriage throughout the process of making the film.
"I really appreciated being able to be at this point in our relationship where we can talk about all this stuff, and how there were so many elements in our relationship that in a way mirrored my parents' relationship that I wasn't even aware of," he told PEOPLE of Taylor, whom he married in 2000. "And she's always had this amazing perspective on things like that. And so I was just grateful that we were able to talk about this stuff and be here together now at this point in time."
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Anne Meara, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller and Jerry Stiller in 2006.
Along with Ben's sister Amy Stiller and Taylor, the couple's children Ella, 23, and Quin, 20, also appear in the film. Being that the project was such a personal one, when it came to choosing which bits to include in the final cut, Stiller says his whole family was involved.
"I would show them cuts of the movie and get their feedback on it both creatively — because they're smart, receptive people — and then also personally, just to feel that they were okay with this personal stuff that we were putting out there," he told PEOPLE.
Overall, Stiller hopes that in telling the story of his own family, others might see bits of their own.
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Quin Stiller, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller at the New York Film Festival premiere of 'Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost" on Oct. 5, 2025.
"I think everybody understood the goal of what the film evolved into," Stiller said of working with his family on the project. "Which was to try to tell an honest portrait of a family dynamic that hopefully other people could relate to."
Elsewhere in the film, Stiller and Taylor reflect on the early stages of their relationship after first meeting while filming a TV pilot called Heat Vision and Jack. After watching his parents navigate being in a relationship and raising a family while also working together, Ben remembers thinking: "I don't want to become my parents."
He and Taylor wed in 2000 but made the decision to split up in 2017, telling PEOPLE in a statement: "With tremendous love and respect for each other, and the 18 years we spent together as a couple, we have made the decision to separate."
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Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller in 'Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost."
But in 2022, Stiller revealed in an interview with Esquire that the couple had rekindled their romantic relationship during the pandemic — while he was also making the documentary.
"There was sort of this coming together," he says in the film. "Us talking about what we were going through, our issues, and looking at what my parents had been through, too, in a way I hadn't looked at it before."
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost will screen in select theaters beginning on Oct. 17 and will be available to stream on Apple TV on Oct. 24.
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