Life is good for ad man Ruben Guthrie - he leads a party boy lifestyle, has a model fiancée and lives in a house on the water. He’s at the top of his game, until some drunken skylarking lands Ruben at the bottom of his infinity pool, lucky to be alive.
His mum takes him to AA and his fiancée leaves him, but not before issuing him one final challenge: If Ruben can do one year without a drink, she’ll give him another chance...
'RUBEN GUTHRIE' STORIES
Instead of joining the rest of Australian cinema in 2015 as another memorable example of great work, ‘Ruben Guthrie’ instead ends up being like a hangover you wish you could just forget.
‘Ruben Guthrie’ is a loud and erratic film handling many important subjects without ever committing to saying anything about them.