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The Guardian (2006)

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Reviews Counted:424

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Average Rating:6.0/10

Consensus: The Coast Guard gets its chance for a heroic movie tribute, but The Guardian does it no justice, borrowing cliche after cliche from other (and better) military branch movies.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of action/peril, brief strong language and some sensuality

Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:2006-Fall

Box Office: $54,983,983

Synopsis: Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher team up in this torch-passing tale of the brave men and women in the Navy Coastguard elite rescue diver unit. A catastrophic rescue mission leaves him wounded after... Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher team up in this torch-passing tale of the brave men and women in the Navy Coastguard elite rescue diver unit. A catastrophic rescue mission leaves him wounded after his wife (Sela Ward) walks out on him, so heavily decorated, reluctantly aging rescue diver Ben Randall (Costner) takes some leave from the ocean to assume instructor duties down at the naval training base. There his humorless pedagogy rubs a lot of trainees the wrong way, but a champion high-school swimmer, Jake (Kucher), has no problem keeping up, and it looks like old Ben may have found someone worthy to be his replacement. But first each man has to wrestle with his own personal demons...and each other. Under the no-nonsense direction of Andrew Davis (THE FUGITIVE, UNDER SIEGE), the visceral energy flows nonstop through this familiar but nonetheless riveting affair. Shot in a flat, matter-of-fact manner, the harshness of naval academy life is celebrated without being glamorized, while the rescues at sea are nothing short of hair-raising, making excellent use of CGI effects to plunge the viewer right into the towering waves and storms along with the divers. Several familiar, stalwart faces are on hand to help the boys become men and the men to accept aging gracefully, including John Heard, Clancy Brown, and Neal McDonough. Costner is perfect in a curmudgeonly role that fits him like a tailor-made wet suit. The real surprise is Kutcher, who seems to grow as an actor as his character grows as a person, revealing lots of murky depth. Bonnie Bramlet adds some sparkle as the singer at the local watering hole. [More]

Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Clancy Brown, Sela Ward

Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Clancy Brown, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller, Travis Willingham, John Heard, Neal McDonough, Bonnie Bramlett

Director: Andrew Davis

Director: Andrew Davis
Screenwriter: Ron L. Brinkerhoff
Producer: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Studio: Touchstone Pictures

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