Brad’s Status
Last night I stumbled on a little movie I hadn’t seen before called Brad’s Status. Brad’s Status is a 2017 film written and directed by Mike White, starring Ben Stiller. The premise is that Brad (Stiller) is a modestly successful nonprofit director taking his son to college visits (Harvard, Tufts) from his “ordinary” home in Sacramento, and becoming consumed by envy and self-doubt as he measures his life against four college friends who all seem…

