Guidance

Guidance (2014)

He's getting an F for Fabulous!

Fabricating credentials to score a last-ditch job as a high school guidance counsellor, a boozing, drug-addled former child star becomes an improbable hit with his students by dispensing the worst advice possible, in this hilarious reprobate comedy from writer-director-star Pat Mills.

Date of release
2014-09-04
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (36)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Pat Mills

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Background

Mills, a former child actor who appeared on the television series You Can't Do That on Television in the 1980s, drew inspiration both from the troubled history of many child actors and from a desire to subvert the conventions of the stereotypical coming out narrative.

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