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Synopsis: Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious role as the title character in "Simple Jack" resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of "Tropic Thunder", based on Vietnam war veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoirs of his rescue during the war, that rescue which was considered a near suicide mission for the assigned army force and resulted in him losing both hands. For his role, Caucasian Australian Lazarus even went through a controversial surgical skin dying procedure so that he could convincingly play a black man. Production is not going well since rookie director Damien Cockburn is unable to cont
Genre: Action, Comedy
Director(s): Ben Stiller
Production: DreamWorks/Paramount Studios
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 43 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2008
107 min
$110,416,702
Website
3,450 Views


in this life,

but I want you to know something.

What, man?

You are my...

You are my brother.

You are my brother.

You are my... You are my...

I am your brother.

I'm sorry. Could we cut?

- What's he saying?

- Damien, can we cut?

- No. No, no, no, no, no...

- All right, you know what?

We got the jets coming in,

big explosion, two minutes.

Still rolling.

You know what? No, not still rolling.

Can we cut?

- We're cutting.

- No, we're not. Get out!

Hey, what's going on?

For real, my butt is hurting!

This harness is riding up my crack!

- Damien, are we cutting?

- No! No! Still rolling!

Mr. Cockburn! Are we cutting, sir?

No! No. I'm not cutting!

We're still rolling!

Damien, what's the dealy, dude?

Are we gonna blow

this tree line or what?

Tuk Tuk and Kim

got the blue balls here.

I'm gonna let them squirt if we're a go!

- Play it through. Still rolling!

- Dieter, can he hear me?

That's C-4, dipshit. Put that back.

I said a detonator.

I need some dudes up here

who speak American, God damn it!

He's making

a f***ing sweater back here.

I'm trying to put Tiger Balm

on this jungle's nuts.

Everyone, please shut up.

The jets are coming in.

We only have one chance at this!

And go!

Let's do it. You feel it?

You feel me?

- You are my...

- I am your brother.

We've seen it all, man.

I'm sorry, Damien?

Are you seeing that?

The little froggy on the boom mike?

It's right in my eyeline.

Donny! What's up, man?

It's been there the whole show.

Yeah, well it's right in my face,

I'm staring at a frog, I'm trying to feel...

It's always the yellow frog that

brings them black frog on Fridays, man.

Hell, no, I didn't pee on that girl.

No, I didn't pee on her,

listen, listen, listen, listen. No, no.

The story is this. She was in the way

when I was peeing, she walked past.

What the f*** is going on here?

On three, baby. One, two, breathe.

Look, do me a favor. I don't want to do

a countdown before I do the scene.

- No countdown?

- No countdown.

- Okay.

- Can we just do it off of "Action"?

Just... In your own time.

- Good...

- I'm not a rocket ship, okay?

- All right, dude.

- And action!

Whatever floats your boat, baby.

F***! Don't die!

Erika, get me a VitaminWater!

You know what it is, Damien? I'm sorry.

Not to get into his thing, but if

I'm crying, should Osiris be crying, too?

- No, it's everyone cry...

- We cutting or we crying?

- No, no, no, we're crying!

- Just call it, man!

- Kirk, you can cry. Tugg, you can cry.

- Thanks!

- Everybody cry...

- You know what?

- You see how agitated he is now?

- I know.

- Let's make lemonade. Let's go to work.

- Okay. Still rolling!

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Justin Theroux

Justin Paul Theroux (; born August 10, 1971) is an American actor, film producer, comedian, and screenwriter. He is known for his work with film director David Lynch in Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006), his starring role as Kevin Garvey in the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2017) and as Tom in The Girl on the Train (2016). He is also known as a screenwriter for films such as Tropic Thunder (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010). more…

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