A newly engaged couple buys their dream house but it comes with one small catch, a perennial party animal who lives in the guesthouse.
As “Guest House” opens, Sarah (Aimee Teegarden) and Blake (Mike Castle) are taking their engagement to a new level by searching for a house of their dreams. When they think they’ve found the perfect setting in which to start a family, the choice immediately backfires when they find a tenant in the guest house that has his own idea about living freely. When Blake makes a promise to Sarah that he can get party animal Randy Cockfield (Pauly Shore) moved out in a week or even a month, he is sorely disappointed to learn that Randy has a whole lot more staying power than he expected.
Randy starts out trying to be friends with the couple but realizes they are on an entirely different level, or it seems so until he can talk Randy into getting high and forgetting what his relationship goals are. Sarah, who has been trying to keep things together in her job, starts to realize that Blake has become totally irresponsible and is spending his days doing absolutely nothing with Randy who seems to have bullied Blake into becoming a care-free and irresponsible junkie. Sarah eventually confides in her dad about her disappointment with Blake, and because he has never really felt good about Blake, he encourages her to bail out while she can. Too much in love to just walk away, Sarah keeps giving Blake one chance after another to remove Randy from the property, while Randy is getting bolder and bolder with his outrageous personality and eventually makes the couple feel they have no say so with regard to his being a tenant on their property.
The cat and mouse game that Randy and the tenants play with one another gets to be very serious when Sarah and Blake decide to bring their wedding activities to the house and use over-the-top tactics to get Randy to leave. The games turn nasty and absolutely dangerous after Blake loses his job and seeks to get the ultimate revenge on Randy. Sarah decides to throw in the towel when she discovers she is pregnant and decides it is too much of a risk to continue to try to be with Blake who has spiraled out of control. When a series of unfortunate events finds Blake on the wrong side of the law, nothing can be done to get the couple back together except a truce in the form of a secret admission from Randy that brings the entire ending to a communal reversal with a totally shocking revelation.
Fans of Pauly Shore can revel in the fact that he still has the uncanny ability to be an obnoxious character with redeeming qualities. He is truly hilarious in this role as Randy and plays each moment out with every fiber of his multi-talented being. In this mighty show of one-upmanship, director Sam Marconi has done an outstanding job of casting totally believable characters in uncompromising positions, effectively displaying immaturity at its worst and self-indulgence at its best! If you’re overdue for a laugh or two in these unrelenting times, be sure to tune in to this film to get your money’s worth.
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