Guidance
Guidance

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- 62/100 based on 928 votes
  • Released: 2014
  • Runtime: 83 mins
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  • Studio: Téléfilm Canada
  • Genres: Comedy

David Gold, a former child actor with a modicum of fame from that time, is now a thirty-something burnt out shell of a human being. An overgrown adolescent with a warped sense of reality and of his life (including not being sexually active, he probably a repressed homosexual, being gay which most people just assume about him upon meeting), he's broke, can't keep any job due largely to his excessive drinking, has long severed ties with his parents and has just done so with his... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Guidance:

Pat Mills
Zahra Bentham
Kevin Hanchard
Tracey Hoyt
David Tompa
David Wontner

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David Gold, a former child actor with a modicum of fame from that time, is now a thirty-something burnt out shell of a human being. An overgrown adolescent with a warped sense of reality and of his life (including not being sexually active, he probably a repressed homosexual, being gay which most people just assume about him upon meeting), he's broke, can't keep any job due largely to his excessive drinking, has long severed ties with his parents and has just done so with his older sister Ginny in her pleas for him to get professional help for his psychological issues, and is on the brink of being homeless unless he immediately comes up with back rent. On top of everything, he is in denial about a potentially life threatening medical diagnosis. To get rent money and as he feels his purpose in life is to help teenagers being one emotionally himself, he, "borrowing" the identity of a real life counselor he finds online, applies for an immediately need to be filled high school counselor job as bespectacled, corduroy suit-wearing "Roland Brown", and gets hired on a temporary basis spewing Brown's mantras he was able to memorize. As Brown mantra spewing in combination with David's inherent self results in both the faculty and students thinking he a bit weird, David instead turns to being his booze guzzling adolescent self in connecting with the students. In the process of making the first real human connections in a long time, David may come to some realizations about his life. His made up life as a guidance counselor takes a darker turn when he discovers some information about the home life of one of the students, Jabrielle Crain, whose problems cannot be fixed with a relaxing shot of vodka followed by being herself.

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Austin American-Statesman - 8/10 by Matt ShiverdeckerGuidance manages to be ridiculous and oddly charming.
Toronto Star - 6/10 by Linda BarnardEntertaining, often darkly comic and certainly more amusing than similarly themed rotten role model comedies.
NOW Toronto - 6/10 by Glenn SumiMills skilfully sets up characters and situations, draws strong work from his cast of mostly locals (expert at playing straight-faced) and makes fine use throughout of a silly motivational recording David's seen making in the first scene.
User Review - 10/10 by Rebecca MGreat film!! So glad I found it on Netflix. Can't wait to see more from Pat Mills!
User Review - 10/10 by Michael KUnconventional but surprisingly funny and hilarious look at a man in a downward spiral who, through posing as a high school counsellor, ends up helping a series of high school students through unconventionally asymmetrical & hilarious, yet surprisingly effective advice. His lies soon catch up with with him and force a humorous resolution that has a positive uplift. An interesting, yet small budget film of worthy interest.
User Review - 10/10 by Jesse OFunny, smart comedy with a unique story line. Loved it!
User Review - 8/10 by Pankaj PWhat my friend described as 'Trippy'. The movie is hilarious and feels wrong at so many levels. An excellent movie for such a low budget. I don't know if the director-actor Pat Mills is gay or not, but if he isn't, then he wonderfully depicted one.
User Review - 8/10 by Josh AGuidance is a surprise of a film. It balances humor and heart exceptionally well. Like the rest of the reviews are saying, Pat Mills is one to look out for in the future
User Review - 6/10 by Leong CPat Mills delivers a fantastic performance as a washed-up child star, but the film itself stumbles in quite a few areas. Overall, a solid dark comedy with some final act issues.
User Review - 6/10 by Lee MPat Mills has concocted a subversive, silly and oh-so-comically Canadian version of failed-actor-turned-guidance counselor.

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