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
The film is scheduled for release this fall.
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