Guidance (2014)

Directed by

Pat Mills

Genre

LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

16

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former child star fakes his way into a job as a high school guidance counselor. He struggles with addiction and denial about his sexuality and health, but his messed up advice ends up helping the students.

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What happens

Guidance is a Canadian dark comedy film, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival on September 5, 2014, as part of the Discovery program. The full-length directorial debut of Pat Mills, the film stars Mills as David Gold, a down on his luck former child star who fabricates his credentials to take a job as a high school guidance counsellor. An unrecovered alcoholic and drug addict troubled by his faded success and in deep denial about both his closeted gay sexuality and his health following a skin cancer diagnosis, he becomes unexpectedly popular with the students after his habit of introducing them to his own deeply unhealthy coping mechanisms actually helps many of them solve their own problems. The film's cast also includes Kevin Hanchard, Alex Ozerov, Zahra Bentham, Jen Goodhue, Maria Vacratsis, Eleanor Zichy and Allison Hossack. It has been picked up by Strand Releasing for distribution in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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