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.
Acting
Pat Mills commits so hard you'll worry he's method.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it'll cut through your cynicism.
Direction
Tight 83 minutes, zero fat, maximum damage.
Director
Pat Mills
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pat Mills based David Gold partly on his own experience as a queer former child actor in Canadian television, mining genuine industry trauma for comedy gold.
The 'fabulous' line was improvised—Mills kept it because it perfectly captures David's desperate need to perform competence he doesn't have. The entire film was shot in 16 days on a shoestring budget in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
US
CA
