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    Tropic Thunder

    Ben Stiller's new movie features Robert Downey Jr. as an actor who dyes his skin brown to play a black soldier in an epic Vietnam film.

    In Tropic Thunder (Stiller's first directorial endeavor since 2001's male modeling parody Zoolander), the filmmaker turns his satirical lens towards self-indulgent actors. Let the comparisons to Soul Man begin.

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