Monday, March 11, 2019

Brad's Status (2017), 5

R | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Music | 15 September 2017
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
Writer/Director: Mike White
Stars: Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5884230/
Watched on AmazonPrime.

7 songs in the Soundtracks. The son is a musician. The only 2 performances I remember is of Humoresque near the end, and a busker (also the son) performing a folk-y song. Very silly to count this as a music/al, but ok.

If I would write a synopsis, it might be: "Father's midlife crisis is accelerated by taking his son on college visits." BS is the father, and  either he or his voiceover is in every shot.

Spoiler: it seemed like he might resolve his crisis, but relapsed with the last sentence. The End.

Probably (perhaps) interesting to a person having a midlife crisis. Otherwise, not so much.

Rated 6.5 (12,729)

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