Ruben Guthrie
Ruben Guthrie, 29-year-old man, a hotshot Sydney adman trying to go sober, was praised by intelligent reviewers when it opened a few years ago. By night, he is one of Sydney’s most notorious party boys until he jumps off a hotel roof into a wading pool and nearly kills himself.
10 August 1989, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
28 December 1973, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
10 January 1966, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
21 June 1974, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
25 September 1942, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
July 13, 2015
Based on Cowell's stage play, the film is as high spirited as the subject matter, delving into the social pressures surrounding the drinking culture and its effects on life, love and family
August 14, 2015
Perhaps Ruben Guthrie makes more sense if you watch it while drunk. Being sober, I loathed it.
July 16, 2015
It's an entertaining trip, but one that's also thought provoking and appropriately sobering.
July 15, 2015
"There's an unintended 'ripped from the headlines' quality to the story of an advertising executive's battle with alcohol"
January 01, 2016
Cowell makes his feature film début as writer/director/producer, bringing it to the screen with Patrick Brammall in terrific, tormented form as our titular 'hero'.
July 25, 2015
An initially archetypal trajectory (boy loses girl; boy goes on mission to get her back) becomes something curlier and less conventional, with lashings of abrasive dialogue that recall its stage origins
July 13, 2015
Sails breezily along with terrific dialogue, great performances and an extremely relatable story. It's excellent contemporary entertainment, the kind of character and situation-based comedy the French do so well but Australian cinema, not so much.
July 16, 2015
As a writer and actor, Cowell is obviously talented if erratic; as a filmmaker he has a long way to go.
July 24, 2015
It might be a case of something essential getting lost in the translation, but first-time director Brendan Cowell's adaptation of his play about an alcoholic advertising man on the road to redemption is a well-intentioned mess.
