Zoolander
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
- Adrian Young
- Alexa Nikolas
- Alexander Skarsgård
- Amy Stiller
- Andrew Wilson
- Andy Dick
- Anne Meara
- Ben Stiller
- Billy Zane
- Carmen Kass
- Christian Slater
- Christine Taylor
- Claudia Schiffer
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- David Bowie
- David Duchovny
- Donald Trump
- Donatella Versace
- Emma Bunton
- Fabio Lanzoni
- Fred Durst
- Garry Shandling
- Gwen Stefani
- Heidi Klum
- Irina Pantaeva
- James Marsden
- Jennifer Coolidge
- Jerry Stahl
- Jerry Stiller
- Johann Urb
- Jon Voight
- Judah Friedlander
- Justin Theroux
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Lance Bass
- Lenny Kravitz
- Lil' Kim
- Lukas Haas
- Malan Breton
- Mark Ronson
- Milla Jovovich
- Natalie Portman
- Nathan Lee Graham
- Nora Dunn
- Owen Wilson
- Paris Hilton
- Patton Oswalt
- Sandra Bernhard
- Shavo Odadjian
- Stephen Dorff
- Tom Ford
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Tyson Beckford
- Victoria Beckham
- Vince Vaughn
- Will Ferrell
- Winona Ryder