This is quite a film. I think it was a TV movie, but it’s really quite captivating. Young Gary (Chris Patric) is a promising kid who seems to make every bad decision in the book. A Junior in High school, he gets a job and nice car with the help of his trusting father. Little does his dad know that Gary is a pothead.
Christin is also a doper, and a constant runaway, who abuses her mother constantly. The two are in love, and do all sorts of drugs together. While Gary’s parents are totally naïve and always try to give their son the benefit of the doubt, Christin’s mother has had enough and has joined a Parent support group called Tough Love. It’s a support group for parents of out of control teens.
Soon Gary’s parents join tough love. Christin dies of a drug overdose, and Gary quickly descends from recreational user to hardcore junkie. After numerous interventions, being kicked out of the house, and arrested and stuck in Juvenile detention, Gary learns the true meaning of tough love.
It’s a B-ish movie, but, I found it worth the watch, and captivating in a way. It’s an interesting chronicle of modern parenting, and how far we’ve gone from discipline, and defined love. Parenting is definitely gone from our society, so it was refreshing to see a movie that looks at it. See also Parenthood. 2.
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