Directed by:
Mike WhiteScreenplay:
Mike WhiteCinematography:
Xavier GrobetComposer:
Mark MothersbaughCast:
Ben Stiller, Jenna Fischer, Austin Abrams, Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson, Jemaine Clement, Shazi Raja, Erin Agostino, Luisa Lee, Nathaly Thibault (more)Plots(1)
Brad (Ben Stiller) has a satisfying career and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento where he lives with his sweet-natured wife, Melanie (Jenna Fischer), and their musical prodigy son, Troy (Austin Abrams), but it’s not quite what he imagined during his college days. While showing Troy around Boston, where Brad went to university, he can’t help comparing his life with those of his old college friends: a Hollywood bigshot (director Mike White), a hedge-fund founder (Luke Wilson), a tech entrepreneur (Jemaine Clement), and a political pundit & bestselling author (Michael Sheen). As he imagines their wealthy, glamorous lives, he wonders if cozy middle-class domesticity is the best he will ever achieve. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if, in some essential ways, their lives are more flawed than they appear. (Vertigo Releasing)
(more)Cast
Ben Stiller
USA
Best movies:
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Madagascar (2005)
Jenna Fischer
USA
Best movies:
The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Blades of Glory (2007)
Austin Abrams
USA
Best movies:
Gangster Squad (2013)
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Puzzle (2018)
Michael Sheen
UK
Best movies:
Blood Diamond (2006)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
The Damned United (2009)
Luke Wilson
USA
Best movies:
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Jackass: Number Two (2006)
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
Jemaine Clement
New Zealand
Best movies:
Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (2018) (TV movie)
Moana (2016)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Shazi Raja
USA
Best movies:
Haunt (2019)
Brad's Status (2017)
Erin Agostino
Canada
Best movies:
Girlhouse (2014)
Brad's Status (2017)
Winx Club: the Secret of the Lost Kingdom (2007) - narrator
Luisa Lee
Best movies:
Lady Bird (2017)
Brad's Status (2017)
Nathaly Thibault
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Arrival (2016)
The Walk (2015)
Spiro Malandrakis
Canada
Best movies:
Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
Ascension (2014) (series)
The Wild Hunt (2009)
Julia Dawi
Sweden
Best movies:
The Walk (2015)
Death Wish (2018)
Brad's Status (2017)
Mike White
USA
Best movies:
School of Rock (2003)
The Good Girl (2002)
Brad's Status (2017)
Felicia Shulman
Best movies:
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Shivers (1975)
Jimmy Kimmel
USA
Richard Jutras
Best movies:
The Twentieth Century (2019)
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Wicker Park (2004)
Dawn Ford
Best movies:
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Polytechnique (2009)
Rosalba Martinni
Best movies:
Chloe (2009)
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Brad's Status (2017)
Xavier Sotelo
Best movies:
His Master's Voice (2018)
Brad's Status (2017)
Obsessed to Death (2022) (TV movie)
Lexie Roth
Best movies:
Patriots Day (2016)
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
American Woman (2018)