Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder (2008) — watch online on iFILM, a war comedy written and directed by Ben Stiller that turns Hollywood's self-importance into its own punchline. The cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Cruise in an almost unrecognizable role. A DreamWorks Pictures production.

A massively overbudget war epic is collapsing on set. The director, out of options, drops his bickering cast into real Southeast Asian jungle and tells them the cameras are hidden everywhere. They keep acting. The armed drug cartel they stumble onto is not acting.

Robert Downey Jr. earned an Academy Award nomination — rare for a comedy — for playing an Australian method actor who refuses to break character as a Black soldier throughout the entire shoot. The film grossed nearly $196 million worldwide. Stream Tropic Thunder (2008) on iFILM.