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Brad’s Status Page #5
BRAD:
(reading)
Okay, tomorrow Harvard - interview
and tour.
TROY:
And then I’m supposed to meet up
with this girl from high school who
goes there. She’s in the music
department so...
(CONTINUED)
BRAD'S STATUS - WHITE VERSION - Sept 13, 2016 -Page 25
44 CONTINUED:
44BRAD:
Wednesday - Tufts interview and
tour. That’s gonna be weird - I
haven’t been back there in so long.
(shrugs)
Okay, then Thursday - we rent the
Williams...
(looks up)
These are all competitive schools,
Troy. You have some safety schools
you’re applying to?
TROY:
Yeah, sure.
BRAD:
Just try not to get too caught up
in the game. The brands. Don’t
put too much pressure on yourself.
It all works out. In the end, you
end up at the right place.
TROY:
I’m not worried.
BRAD:
You shouldn’t be.
TROY:
I’m just stoked to get out of Sac.
Everything else is gravy.
BRAD:
Ahh, Sacramento’s all right.
Troy lets out a little laugh.
BRAD:
You’ll miss your parents.
TROY:
That’s true.
BRAD:
When I was your age, I was so
freaked out about college. I
wanted to go to Yale. I was
obsessed. I don’t even know why.
Why Yale? Then I got wait-listed -
and then I didn’t get in. But it
all worked out. I loved Tufts.
Tufts was a fantastic school.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
BRAD'S STATUS - WHITE VERSION - Sept 13, 2016 -Page 26
44 CONTINUED:
44BRAD (cont'd)
Made great friends. I had a
professor - Bob Connor - took me
under his wing - blew my mind -
changed my life - made me want to
save the world.
Brad’s mind drifts for a bit, then he returns.
BRAD:
Anyway, f*** Yale. You know what
I’m saying? And if you don’t get
into Tufts, f*** Tufts.
TROY:
My counselor thinks I’ll get into
Yale.
It takes Brad a moment to process this.
BRAD:
She does?
TROY:
He does.
BRAD:
He does?
(off TROY’s nod)
Why does he think that?
TROY:
I don’t know. My grades. My
scores. My compositions - I guess
a lot of these schools want to fill
orchestral spots.
(shrugs)
My counselor’s pretty confident
I’ll get in everywhere I apply.
(off BRAD’s look; laughs)
What? You look stunned.
BRAD:
No. I just... do you think this
guy knows what he’s talking about?
TROY:
He’s been doing it for twenty
years.
BRAD:
He thinks you’ll get into Yale?
(off TROY’s nod)
That’s amazing. Really? Wow.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
BRAD'S STATUS - WHITE VERSION - Sept 13, 2016 -Page 27
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44BRAD (cont'd)
I mean, I knew you had good grades.
I’ve always thought you were a
genius. But I just... That is so
awesome, Troy.
(beams, then...)
But we’re not visiting Yale.
TROY:
I don’t want to go to Yale.
BRAD:
Why not?
TROY:
I’m hoping I’ll get into Harvard.
There’s a music professor there -
this guy, Jerome Backaly. And he’s
doing really cool stuff. And I
don’t know - it’s a cool program.
I just have this feeling...
BRAD:
You should meet him while you’re
here!
TROY:
I’d like to. My friend from school
-she says, there’s a concert
Wednesday night she’s playing - and
he might be there. So...
BRAD:
(amazed)
You’re going to Harvard.
TROY:
Well, maybe - I don’t know.
BRAD:
Does your mother know this?
TROY:
She knows I want to.
BRAD:
I just can’t believe I didn’t know
this.
TROY:
You knew we were coming here.
*
(CONTINUED)
BRAD'S STATUS - WHITE VERSION - Sept 13, 2016 -Page 28
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44BRAD:
I knew we were checking out the
school - but I didn’t know you were *
actually gonna get in.
TROY:
I might not get in.
BRAD:
But it sounds like you might?
TROY:
(smiles)
Yeah, I might.
BRAD:
(elated)
My kid’s going to Harvard.
TROY:
Well, don’t f***ing jinx me, dude.
Brad is soon full of emotion. He works to keep it in check.
TROY:
You okay, Dad?
Brad nods, composing himself.
BRAD:
Life’s crazy. How cool. Proud of
you.
Brad looks like he might cry. The WAITRESS arrives.
WAITRESS:
What can I get you?
BRAD:
(looks up)
Hi. We’re here visiting colleges.
My son’s first choice is Harvard.
Troy rolls his eyes, embarrassed.
WAITRESS:
Okay. And what would he like to
eat?
BRAD'S STATUS - WHITE VERSION - Sept 13, 2016 -Page 29
Brad and Troy lie back on their twin beds, both illuminated
by the glow of their laptops.
On Brad - he is wide-eyed, energized - as he stares at the
computer screen. We can HEAR classical piano leaking from
his ear buds.
NARRATOR:
Brad was electrified by this latest
development. Here - suddenly - an
unexpected lifeline - something
tangible - an outward proof.
ON COMPUTER - Brad is watching a home video of Troy playing
piano. He’s clearly a prodigy.
NARRATOR:
Of course. His child. His son.
Brad has tears in his eyes as he watches the video.
NARRATOR:
A genius. With substance. His
heart could burst with this deep
satisfaction.
He looks over at...
...Troy, watching GAME OF THRONES on his laptop.
NARRATOR:
Brad realized along the way, he’d
somehow lost the plot. Cured of
his amnesia, he now remembered what
he’d been doing for the last
seventeen years.
Troy senses he’s being watched. He looks over.
Brad gives Troy a big, prideful grin.
NARRATOR:
Planting and nurturing and modeling
for this miraculous creature.
Troy smiles back, bemused, then turns back to the show.
Brad looks out into the middle distance, contemplative.
(CONTINUED)
BRAD'S STATUS - Blue Revision - Sept 26, 2016 -Page 30
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45NARRATOR:
It occurred to Brad that BillyWerstler and Nick Pascale didn’t
even have kids.
46 EXT. NICK PASCALE’S HOUSE - DAY 46
Nick and his Husband have a pool party at their LA mansionwith a bunch of YOUNG, ATHLETIC GUYS.
NARRATOR:
The pleasures in their lives werelike candy, Brad thought.
Billy makes out with an attractive GIRL in the ocean.
NARRATOR:
Sugary, addictive, but ultimatelyempty, even potentially harmful.
*
Brad puts away the laptop, smiling to himself.
NARRATOR:
Not like the profound andsustaining pleasure Brad wasexperiencing right now.
Troy is now crouching in front of the mini-bar cabinet.
TROY:
Dad, can I have this Toblerone?
BRAD:
Of course.
As Troy opens the Toblerone...
NARRATOR:
In this new light, Bradreconsidered all his regrets.
49 INT. PRIVATE PLANE - DAY 49
It’s mayhem in the Hatfield family’s private plane.
are all acting bratty, complaining and arguing.
The kids
(CONTINUED)
BRAD'S STATUS - Pink Revision - Sept. 29, 2016-Page 31
CONTINUED:
49Jason Hatfield looks irritated, ignoring the chaos as hetries to work on his computer.
NARRATOR:
If he had pursued money and powerlike Jason Hatfield, Troy mighthave ended up spoiled and entitled.
One of the young boys snorts a line of COCAINE off a tray.
NARRATOR:
Maybe on hard drugs.
50 INT. NEW YORK RESTAURANT - DAY 50
Craig and Diane Fisher and their TWEEN TWIN GIRLS, in theirBrooklyn hipster fashion, have a discussion over brunch.
NARRATOR:
And if he had married a striver
like Diane Fisher and stayed in NewYork, his kids could have been self-
important and unbearable.
TWEEN TWIN ONE:
We need capital for our digitalnewsletter. You must know
investors.
CRAIG:
Well, what is it exactly?
TWEEN TWIN TWO:
We’ve told you, Dad. Feminist
theory and shopping tips.
Troy hands Brad the last chunk of Toblerone.
his mouth.
Brad pops it in
BRAD:
(to himself; chewing)
Thank God for Sacramento.
Hunh?
TROY:
Troy pushes Brad away.
They rough house a bit before *
*
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