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Title: Guidance (2014)
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| Pat Mills | ... | David Gold | |
| Zahra Bentham | ... | Jabrielle Crain | |
| Kevin Hanchard | ... | Principal Newman | |
| Tracey Hoyt | ... | Brenda | |
| David Tompa | ... | Scott Howell | |
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David Alexander | ... | Desmond (as David Wontner) |
| Eleanor Zichy | ... | Rhonda Langdon | |
| Alex Ozerov | ... | Brent 'Ghost' Wark | |
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Laytrel McMullen | ... | Nisha |
| Ian Matthews | ... | Mr. Schlitz | |
| Jen Goodhue | ... | Mrs. Schlitz | |
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Allison Hossack | ... | Ginny |
| Maria Vacratsis | ... | Ms. Kim | |
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Timm Zemanek | ... | Mr. Ball |
| Jane Moffat | ... | Andrea Simms | |
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 ... Written by Huggo
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As the description states this story is about a former male child star who as an adult has become the classic 'boozing, drug-addled former child star looser'. To get his act together and keep his apartment he must find a job. And due to circumstance at the local high school he scores a job as a high school guidance counselor, for which he is totally unprepared outside of interviewing for the position.
After numerous failures as a 'qualified' counselor he decides the best way to help the students in need of guidance is to just encourage them to be exactly who they are! But be the best at it. In doing this he becomes very popular with the students and very unpopular with the resentful fellow staff teachers. When one teacher discovers the guidance counselor's past, he begins to make trouble for the successful counselor. And here is where the movie begins to get both serious and funny.
"Guidance" is a delightful little story with numerous characters you will both hate and characters you will love. The performances are spot on and the storyline rolls along without any boring uninteresting scenes. And please stay with it through the end credits because there is more!