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Ben Stiller Suffers From Severe FOMO in First Look at ‘Brad’s Status’

CinemaCon 2017: Amazon Studios showcases Mike White drama about unrealized potential, jealousy

| March 30, 2017 @ 1:46 PM

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 23: Actor Ben Stiller attends the "While We're Young" New York Premiere at Paris Theater on March 23, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Mike White’s new Ben Stiller drama “Brad’s Status” finds the bankable comedian playing a middle-aged dad with a serious case of FOMO.

Otherwise known as “fear of missing out,” Stiller is a New Yorker who has bumped his head on the few rungs of life’s ladder he has managed to climb — and finds himself jealous of his more successful friends.

At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Amazon Studio’s Head of Marketing and Distribution Bob Berney shared a clip from White’s film, which is currently in postproduction.

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In the teaser, Stiller is lecturing his smart but intensely laid back son on dealing with the pressure of getting into college. He tells a story about his own struggles getting into Yale, and then his son reveals he’s actually close to landing admittance to Harvard.

There’s a bittersweet exchange and on Stiller’s face runs a gamut of emotion over the news: pride, sorrow, bitterness and his resting expression — privileged confusion.

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The title, Berney hinted, might borrow from a common affliction in our digital age — that same FOMO we see in the crafted and filtered images of the success and happiness of our friends on social media.

The film is scheduled for release this fall.

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