The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes87%
Metacritic66/100
35 audience votes
Key crew
- Pat MillsDirector
- Pat MillsScreenplay
- Joseph MurrayOriginal Music Composer
- Lodewijk VosOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Pat MillsDavid Gold
- Zahra BenthamJabrielle
- Kevin HanchardPrincipal Newman
- Tracey HoytBrenda
- David TompaScott Howell
- David WontnerDesmond
- Eleanor ZichyRhonda Langdon
- Alex Ozerov-MeyerBrent ('Ghost')
- Laytrel McMullenNisha
- Ian MatthewsMr. Schlitz
- Jennifer GoodhueMrs. Schlitz (as Jen Goodhue)
- Allison HossackGinny