Tropic Thunder is about a group of spoiled actors who think they’re filming a movie about the Vietnam war must fight for actual survival when their fed-up director and writer decide to dump them in the middle of a real war.
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Tropic Thunder is about a group of spoiled actors who think they’re filming a movie about the Vietnam war must fight for actual survival when their fed-up director and writer decide to dump them in the middle of a real war.
In Ben Stiller’s first directed film since Zoolander, Stiller stars alongside Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. as a group of spoiled actors in Tropic Thunder. Through a series of freak occurrences, this group of actors, while shooting a big-budget war movie, are forced to actually become the soldiers they are portraying.