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Tropic Thunder (2008)
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Ratings: 7.1/10 from 145,155 users
Metascore:
71/100
Reviews: 533 user | 294 critic | 39 from Metacritic.com
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. Director:Ben Stiller |
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A film crew is in Southeast Asia filming a Vietnam-war memoir. It's early in the shooting, but they're already behind schedule and over budget. On the day an accident befalls the novice director, the cast and crew are attacked by a gang of poppy-growing local drug dealers, except the cast and crew don't realize these aren't actors who are stalking them. The thugs kidnap Tugg Speedman, an actor whose star seems on the decline, and it's up to the rest of the ragtag team to band together long enough to attempt his rescue. But will Tugg want to leave? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Una guerra de película See more »Box Office
Budget:
$92,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$25,812,796 (USA) (17 August 2008) (3319 Screens)Gross:
$110,416,702 (USA) (9 November 2008)Company Credits
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[the guards drop to the ground]
Jeff Portnoy: Let's move! We only have 16 hours before they wake up!
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Written by Noddy Holder (as Neville Holder) & Jim Lea (as James Lea)
Performed by Quiet Riot
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The movie drew criticism from several disability groups for the "Simple Jack" subplot, regarding a movie-within-a-movie in which Ben Stiller's character portrays a mentally disabled man. Clips of the fictitious movie are shown, and re-enacted by Stiller, while scenes between Robert Downey Jr. and Stiller drew particular scorn for their repeated use of the word "retard". The producers withdrew a "Simple Jack" website, and proposed altering the movie in response to a special early screening for the disability groups in question, but did not follow through on the suggestion. According to co-writer Etan Cohen, the scenes were not meant to derive humor from mental disability itself, but to satirize emotionally exploitative depictions of mental disability in movies such as Forrest Gump, I Am Sam, Radio, and Rain Man, and the actors who take these roles. See more »Goofs
Errors in geography: There are no pandas in Southeast Asia. They are indigenous only to certain northwest-central provinces of China. See more »Quotes
Jeff Portnoy: [shoves drugs in guards' faces] Take this you bastards! Oh hilarious![the guards drop to the ground]
Jeff Portnoy: Let's move! We only have 16 hours before they wake up!
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Crazy Credits
Tom Cruise (as Les) dances and the end credits start. Scenes from the movie are mixed in. See more »Soundtracks
"Cum On Feel the Noize"Written by Noddy Holder (as Neville Holder) & Jim Lea (as James Lea)
Performed by Quiet Riot
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