Plot
28-year-old slacker/cartoonist named Gordon "Gord" Brody is pursuing his ambition to obtain a contract for a TV show. He heads off for Hollywood, and subsequently gets a job in a cheese sandwich factory. He also goes to an animation studio looking for Mr. Davidson. He is told that he's out to lunch. Gord lies that he's a cop and that Mr. Davidson's wife died. He gets the name of the restaurant and quickly heads there to pitch his idea. After being told that his ideas are stupid and make no sense, he decides to move back home and rethink his future. When Gord's father, Jim, questions Gord's life goals, and then proceeds in a fit of rage to destroy Gord's half-pipe, which Gord has spent a whole year building (thereby sending Gord over the edge), he subsequently gets even by having his father arrested on falsified charges of sexual molestation, destroying his parents' relationship and his family's reputation in the process. Gord's mother, Julie, ends up dating Shaq. Gord and Jim end up sewing soccer balls in Kuwait after Gord finally gets a TV contract, based upon his family. The event that convinces Mr. Davidson to give Gord the contract is when Gord's Dad comes into the office during the interview acting psycho.
Throughout the film, vignettes depict Gord's day-to-day activities, such as his sadomasochistic relationship with a paralyzed woman named Betty, and Gord's younger brother, Freddy's, attempts to "go straight" by going to work at a bank. However, he is later sent to a home for sexually-molested children wearing a shirt that says "No More Secrets."
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