Brad's Status Page #9

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Mike White
Production: Amazon Studios
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2017
102 min
$2,029,594
Website
466 Views


What's going on?

Sorry. Thank you for helping my son.

But I just... I can't...

I'm sorry, I can't...

I can't... can't do this.

I don't know whatever this is. I can't...

Sir?

Your ticket.

Yeah. Thank you.

Excuse me.

Dad?

Hi.

What happened to your dinner?

I'd rather be here with you.

Those are the girls

from last night.

I know.

They're so good.

A sudden rush of feeling

flooded through me.

I spend so much time

in my mind, puffing myself up,

tearing myself down.

I sat there and just listened

and let myself really feel

the life inside me.

The music was beautiful.

The girls were beautiful.

I could love them and never possess them,

just like I could love the world

and never possess it.

I still did love the world.

Dad?

Yeah, I'm good. I'm good.

I'm okay.

Want one?

No thanks.

Ananya said you met up

with her last night.

Yeah. Uh, I couldn't sleep.

Just a drink.

Hey, Dad, you having

some kind of nervous breakdown

or something?

No.

No, it's just...

sometimes I, uh...

have doubts, you know?

Just...

worry that people look at me and, uh,

think of me as...

a failure.

But, you know, the feeling passes.

So...

Mm.

You know, when we were

walking around today

and you were embarrassing me,

I kept thinking, like,

you know, if I go to this school,

everybody here's gonna remember this

and I'm never gonna

be able to live this down.

But...

you know, they're not gonna remember.

Because... everybody's just

thinking about themselves.

You know? Nobody cares.

Like, the only person

that's thinking about you, is me, so...

only person's opinion

that you should really care about is mine.

Yeah.

What's your opinion?

Well, I love you.

Thank you.

My son.

He's here.

We still have years together.

I try to imagine the future.

I kept saying, in my head...

we're still alive.

I'm still alive.

Action.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Troubles will come

Troubles will release

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

If you love

Be happy, loyal and free

If you love

Be happy, loyal and free

You may have others

You may stay with me

Love be happy, loyal and free

Chickens and children know it all

Chickens and children know it all

We may reach great heights

But surely we may fall

Chickens and children know it all

God is not full of hate

God is not full of hate

Some may use him

Defend their fearful ways

But God is not full of hate

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Troubles will come

And these troubles will release

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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Mike White

Michael Christopher "Mike" White is an American writer, actor and producer for television and film and the winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for Chuck & Buck. more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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