Tropic Thunder
- Release Date
- August 9, 2008
- Director
- Ben Stiller
- Cast
- Jeff Kahn , Robert Downey Jr. , Anthony Ruivivar , Jack Black , Jay Baruchel , Brandon T. Jackson
- Runtime
- 106
- Main Genre
- Action
- Studio
- DreamWorks Pictures
- Writers
- Ben Stiller , Justin Theroux , Etan Cohen
- Tagline
- Get some.
- Website
- http://www.tropicthunder.com/
Summary
In the action-comedy "Tropic Thunder," Ben Stiller plays pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman, who is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hiphop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
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