Zoolander 2001

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 89 min

genre: comedy

theme: short

director: Ben Stiller

Score: 7 / 10

Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997. The earlier short films and this film feature Derek Zoolander (Stiller), a dimwitted supermodel. It is the last film from Paramount Pictures with the involvement of Village Roadshow Pictures.

Plot

In New York City, male model Derek Zoolander is at a low point; he is ousted as the top male fashion model by the rising star Hansel, his roommates and colleagues are killed in a "freak gasoline-fight accident", and an attempt to reconnect with his southern New Jersey working class relatives ends with the family rejecting him. Meanwhile, fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu and Derek's agent Maury Ballstein are charged by the fashion industry with finding a model who can be brainwashed into assassinating the new progressive-leaning Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose policies will prohibit them from retaining cheap child labor in the country. Mugatu hires Derek, whom he had never worked with, to star in the next runway show for his brainwashing plan. It involves Derek being conditioned to attempt the assassination when the song "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is played.

Cast

More details

author	Ben Stiller Drake Sather John Hamburg
contentLocation	New York City
director	Ben Stiller
editor	Greg Hayden
events	fashion
genre	action comedy
keywords	abraham lincoln assassination of abraham lincoln assassination of john f. kennedy assassination plot brainwash break in child labor child labour condition developed his first modeling look disc jockey fashion industry fashion model fashion show frankie goes to hollywood group sex hand model john f. kennedy kill male fashion male model model political assassination prime minister prime minister of malaysia relax rising star runway show shuriken south jersey southern new jersey time working class zoolander 2
musicBy	David Arnold
producer	Ben Stiller Scott Rudin Stuart Cornfeld
productionCompany	NPV Entertainment Red Hour Productions Scott Rudin Productions VH1 Films Village Roadshow Pictures
publisher	Paramount Pictures
recordedAt	California New Jersey New York City
theme	action comedy fashion satirical short