Brad's Status (2017)
Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.
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Ben Stiller continues to cultivate his lost, unsure persona which has reared its head in a trio of Noah Baumbach films, his own (The Life of Walter Mitty) & now this one from writer/director Mike White (School of Rock/Chuck & Buck). A father decides to accompany his son on a tour of colleges but finds himself at odds w/the choices he's made in his life (he runs a non-profit concern) as compared to his richer, more affluent college mates who are now kings of the world. An easy going jaunt through the land of regrets & lost possibilities, this film works at a minor key but its message is still potent enough to get across.
Never would of thought an actual good movie will come out of Ben, He killed it ! His acting was surprisingly great !! And the story it self really captures a problem in the world! So 10 out of 10 not less
*** Possible Spoilers*** I saw the trailer to this movie and believed it was a low-boil odd-couple road comedy or at least a social commentary on the coming-of-age of both a dad and his teenage son; the dad, as he reaches what he calls a "plateau" in his life, and the son, as he reaches the college phase of his existence. What I eventually witnessed was a sad, tragic rumination on the life's expectations of a wimpy man-child whose imagined tribulations were as bogus as the fake "Boston/Cambridge" background scenery that came from Montreal.There were no genuinely funny moments at all, and the cringe worthy narration by our somber dad drove me away from time to time to see what was up in the kitchen.Even the scenes of discovery between dad and his famous friends failed to capture my imagination; they only clouded an already murky story with needless and dead-end exposition. And, oh, goof alert! Nobody would walk from Copley Square to Harvard Square if they had important interviews to attend.
I really loved it. One of the best movies i have ever seen.