Going to have some fun with his friends from the collage, Brad Sloan, an ambitious man, who enjoys his simple life in California's suburban, where he has a good job, struggles against feeling inferior comparing to his friends with high jobs and loose.
Ben Stiller plays the neurotic well, and he is excellent here as Brad; Austin Abrams is fantastic as the laid-back son with a clear-eyed vision of how the world works.
Although the pacing is uneven, the end result satisfies. The movie may be marketed to art house audiences but it has something to say to (and about) us all.
I found the existential angst in the film to be was very similar to Mike White's brilliant HBO show "Enlightened," except here the main character just isn't that interesting.
Stiller's performance is funny and substantive, a subtle portrait of middle-age, middle-class, white-guy anxiety existing somewhere between his best commercial comedy roles and prickly indies.
