Stiller competes in Berlin with "Greenberg"
(AP) — Ben Stiller stars as a man seeking a way out of a midlife crisis in director Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg," premiering at the Berlin film festival.
Stiller plays a fortysomething man housesitting his brother's Hollywood home and struggling to reconnect with old friends. He is drawn into a relationship with his brother's personal assistant, played by Greta Gerwig.
The 44-year-old Stiller said ahead of the movie's premiere Sunday that his character "for a long time has felt like he had it all ahead of him and is really coming up against the fact that he doesn't."
He added: "I think that's just a part of being this age."
Baumbach wrote and directed 2005's "The Squid and the Whale." The new film is one of 20 in the Berlin festival's main competition.
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Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
