307 – Brad’s Status

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Underdiscussed in the Mike White oeuvre is 2017’s Brad’s Status, the story of a father reflecting on his own formative college years while taking his son on a college visit. With Ben Stiller center stage, the film examines privilege and maleness with White’s exacting but humane eye for detail, resulting one of the most emotionally affecting works of his career without sacrificing his penchant for characters who aren’t always likable. Arriving the same year as both the White-scripted Beatriz at Dinner and the Stiller-starring The Meyerowitz Stories, this dramedy was yet another victim of Amazon’s mishandled marketing.

This week, we talk about Stiller’s recent years without of major acting roles and what makes this performance one of his best. We also talk about Austin Abrams’ performance as Brad’s son Troy, White’s other portraits of class, Stiller’s upcoming return in TIFF opener Nutcrackers.

Topics also include daydreams, Annapurna Pictures, and 2017 Original Screenplay.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeil

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Joe Reed I've been hearing some news. I've been hearing that people are all a buzz. There's a lot going on.
0:09.0	A lot of buzz. There's a lot of whispers in the air. It turns out...
0:12.0	About you, yourself yourself and someone else exactly you
0:17.3	might have a new podcast on the horizon I do have a new podcast thank you for bringing it up I hope that the this had Oscar buzz
0:26.1	listeners can come and join me at my new podcast venture it is called to me
0:30.5	myself and I am going to be talking about the filmography of one Demi Moore in
0:36.7	chronological order film by film with a lineup of incredible guests which sounds like a good time to me. I don't know about you.
0:45.0	I know it's a good time because I'm one of those incredible guests already.
0:50.0	Heck yeah, for the low cost of five dollars a month on Patreon, you will receive, you the listener, will receive three full length episodes of month talking about movies like St.
1:00.9	Almost Fire and about last night and Ghost as we move through Demise early career,
1:07.4	we're going to go through the whole darn thing.
1:10.0	It's going to be great.
1:11.0	Currently, featuring guests like Natalie Walker, Tara Ariano,
1:15.6	Sarah D. Bunting, and one Mr. Chris v. File. So it's going to be a great, great time.
1:22.6	If you like the discussions that we get into here on this head Oscar Buzz, I have no trouble
1:27.6	at all saying you're going to enjoy the heck out of Demi, myself, and I.
1:31.9	Just head on over to Patreon.com slash DemiPod that's
1:36.0	Patreon.com slash D-E-M-I-P-O-D and I and Chris will see you there and by see you there I mean hear you there you there you'll hear us there
1:49.4	exactly something like that on the Patreon. See you there.
1:54.0	Oh, wrong.
1:55.0	Oh, wrong house.
2:01.0	Oh, from the house. No, the wrong house.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -210 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe and Chris, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joe and Chris and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.