Ben Stiller in Tropical Thunder!

In Ben Stiller's spoof on war films, a trio of pampered A-list actors - the action star (Stiller); the comedian (Jack Black); and the esteemed Australian Oscar winner (Robert Downey Jr.) - get dropped in the jungle for real. While they think they're shooting a verit war flick, they're really just engaging in guerrilla warfare with the locals. Downey's character in the movie-within-the-movie is African-American, so he's, um, in blackface. And Tom Cruise makes a cameo

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