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Brad's Status
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.
| Release : | 2017 |
| Rating : | 6.5 |
| Studio : | Plan B Entertainment, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Amazon Studios, |
| Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
| Cast : | Ben Stiller Austin Abrams Jenna Fischer Michael Sheen Jemaine Clement |
| Genre : | Drama Comedy |
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A Major Disappointment
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
The acting in this movie is really good.
This movie revolves around a 50 year old guys struggle with comparing his life to his old circle of friends from college who have somehow managed to strike it rich by age 50. Of five supposedly close friends, four of them are multimillionaires with enviable lives. Brad, however feels he is not successful enough because he does not earn a seven figure income. The movie has some touching moments and tries to make you realize that being grateful for what you do have is the key to being happy/content or "satisfied" with your own life. I found the movie mildly entertaining but also a bit ludicrous in that all 4 of Brad's close friends became obscenely rich before age 50. If you can look past that, the film is watchable.
This is everybody's life who are in their 40s, it relates to all of us. Liked the movie a lot....
My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. I must admit my motive, I am a big Jenna Fischer fan, I found myself wishing she had a larger role.Ben Stiller is Brad Sloan, approaching 50 and often thinks about the guys he knew in college. He lives in Sacramento and has a business aligned with non-profits. But his several closest friends in college seem much more successful, one a hedge fund manager, another a popular TV personality and professor, another who retired at 40 and now spends his days frolicing with two pretty women. Brad is concerned that his "status" isn't great even though he is financially comfortable and he has a good marriage and a super kid about to go off to college. Brad has to grow up.He and his son, Austin Abrams as Troy Sloan, take a college-hunting trip to the Boston area. This trip proves pivotal for Brad, for the first time he realizes how cool his son is and maybe Brad's status isn't so bad after all. Jenna Fischer is the mom, Melanie Sloan. Good movie, interesting character study of Brad and his flawed perceptions of what is important in life.
Still waiting for Hollywood crowd to show us at least one sympathetic and intelligent character who is not a liberal. I guess it would be against their rotten leftist nature.So in this movie, again, it looks like everybody is a liberal, good or bad, spewing the usual propaganda like it is colonialism's fault that most people in India are dirt poor while Americans live great life and don't appreciate it.And of course Amnesty International is a great organization. And of course it is oh so noble to work for the government, any government, but not really noble to have a business: a successful businessman must be a crook, or a drunk.Yes, a lot of stuff in this movie makes sense on purely human level, I just had to force myself to overcome revulsion to its liberal message in order to continue watching it.
