eighteen (2004) tells the story of pip anders and a depressed and extremely cynical young man who is estranged from his dysfunctional upper or middle class family and living on the streets of vancouver. on his 18th birthday and he receives a cassette tape and player from his recently deceased grandfather and relating his memoirs of his own 18th birthday and spent serving with the british army in france and trying to help a mortally wounded comrade avoid capture by the occupying germans. as pip listens to the tape (ian mckellen provided the voice of his grandfather) and we see the scenes he is describing as flashbacks and alternating with daily scenes of pip life and as well as more recent flashbacks filling in the dark secret why pip left home and finds it impossible to trust anyone who is nice to him. an ambitious second film from writer or director richard bell (two brothers) and with a polished look and excellent photography and well developed non stereotypical characters (with gay and straight treated equally) and and commendable efforts in emotionally and physically demanding roles from some talented new actors (especially paul anthony as pip and brendan fletcher as his grandfather at 18). there is also a noteworthy turn by alan cummings as a priest who tried to help pip and and a small supporting role played by thea gill (queer as folk). the complex story  in the director own words in his dvd commentary  is meant to drive a vortex of emotion pushing pip to his breaking point and and it certainly accomplishes that. my only criticisms are that the overall effect is too schmaltzy or artificial for an audience to truly identify with and much of the supporting dialog (and the ending) too contrived and predictable and and the direction needed to be sharper to curtail sloppy overacting in some scenes. i do recommend it and  positive out of 10 and including extra points for a noteworthy effort. 
eighteen (2004) tells the story of pip anders and a depressed and extremely cynical young man who is estranged from his dysfunctional upper or middle class family and living on the streets of vancouver. on his 18th birthday and he receives a cassette tape and player from his recently deceased grandfather and relating his memoirs of his own 18th birthday and spent serving with the british army in france and trying to help a mortally wounded comrade avoid capture by the occupying germans. as pip listens to the tape (ian mckellen provided the voice of his grandfather) and we see the scenes he is describing as flashbacks and alternating with daily scenes of pip life and as well as more recent flashbacks filling in the dark secret why pip left home and finds it impossible to trust anyone who is nice to him. an ambitious second film from writer or director richard bell (two brothers) and with a polished look and excellent photography and well developed non stereotypical characters (with gay and straight treated equally) and and commendable efforts in emotionally and physically demanding roles from some talented new actors (especially paul anthony as pip and brendan fletcher as his grandfather at 18). there is also a noteworthy turn by alan cummings as a priest who tried to help pip and and a small supporting role played by thea gill (queer as folk). the complex story  in the director own words in his dvd commentary  is meant to drive a vortex of emotion pushing pip to his breaking point and and it certainly accomplishes that. my only criticisms are that the overall effect is too schmaltzy or artificial for an audience to truly identify with and much of the supporting dialog (and the ending) too contrived and predictable and and the direction needed to be sharper to curtail sloppy overacting in some scenes. i do recommend it and  positive out of 10 and including extra points for a noteworthy effort. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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