What is your favorite uncomfortable Ben Stiller moment (involving an animal)?
You know everything is going to go wrong when ingratiating and unlucky Ben Stiller is trying to make a good impression on his prospective father-in-law and cat-lover, De Niro. So, when dinner is looming to go from bad to worse, and De Niro says how the urn over the fireplace contains his dear Mother’s ashes, you know something inappropriate will happen to Mum. So, it’s funny and awful but a bit anticipated when the champagne cork takes out dear old Mom’s fragile repository and her ashes lie mixed with pottery on the floor. All of us can envision a dear relative’s remains in that spot, so my discomfort meter is up pretty high. But, inherently you that while Ben is terribly at fault the problem can still be mostly fixed with a good dustpan and brush and baggy (and some sangfroid). If Mom’s ashes are a little dirtier, with perhaps a little porcelain and a modicum of disrespect mixed in, she’ll still be Mom (or what’s left of her). But, in that split second when our sense of humor is teete
