Over five years in the making, Ben Stiller ’s documentary about his parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, whose television appearances were a mainstay of 1960s and ’70s American culture, grew to encompass his own personal experience with family and parenting, with results that surprised him.

“I just wanted to tell the story of their careers and lives and as it evolved I realized it had to have more … People would say that’s interesting … but there is something missing in terms of the personal perspective of it. [And] that took a while, because I really didn’t think I wanted to be in the movie at all,” Stiller said as the Apple original film world premiered at the New York Film Festival Sunday.

Moving back and forth in time the doc is anchored by copious audio, video and written archive

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