Underplayed Gems

Zoolander (2001)

Zoolander poster
Directed by
Ben Stiller
Genre
comedy film
Country
Germany, United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4,977 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A famous but dimwitted fashion model is brainwashed to assassinate a foreign leader. The film pokes fun at the fashion industry and its shallow values.

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What happens

Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed, co-produced, co-written by and starring Ben Stiller. A satire on the fashion industry, the film follows fashion model Derek Zoolander (Stiller) who is tricked by fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) into assassinating the Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose progressive laws on the fashion industry would harm his businesses. The cast also features Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller and Jon Voight. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Ben Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997. Zoolander was released to theatres by Paramount Pictures on September 28, 2001. It received generally positive reviews and was a box-office success, grossing $60.8 million against a $28 million budget. A sequel, Zoolander 2, was released in February 2016. An animated film follow-up, Zoolander: Super Model, was released on Netflix in the UK in August 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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