Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 4
T. Bill debuts as an affectionate director, keenly aware of growing pains.
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
T. Bill debuts as an affectionate director, keenly aware of growing pains.
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This quietly compelling film explores the hardships and anxieties of high school with intelligence, sensitivity, warmth and humor. Chris Makepeace stars as a shy, bookish student who has recently moved to Chicago and begun a new school. There he finds himself the target of a group of punks led by Matt Dillon (ideally cast as the weasel-like bully), who threaten him each day to turn over his lunch money for protection...or else. When he stands up to them, he nearly loses his dental work before
Jul 11, 1980 Wide
Jan 29, 2002
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In his directorial debut, Tony Bill assembles a truly remarkable cast of youngsters with little or no previous acting experience.
A film of ingredients, rather than ideas realized and integrated: it panders on different, disjunctive levels.
This movie is fun to watch because it touches memories that are shared by most of us, and because its young characters are recognizable individuals, and not simplified cartoon figures like so many movie teen-agers.
A sweet little movie about characters who really seem to be people, and that sort of verisimilitude is rarer than it ought to be nowadays.
That's why I keep coming back to My Bodyguard: It continually reveals new layers of truth about what it's really like to be a teenager, whether an outcast, a bully or the bullied.
Coming of age story still relevant and engaging.
Makepeace is excellent as the slight protagonist, and Baldwin is perfect as the brooding, misunderstood mammoth.
The message that accompanies the central theme -- Kids are basically Nice -- is that Brute Force Rules.
Pah-lease...so goofy
A great teen drama/comedy movie. The story is both quirky and realistic. I really liked this movie, it's fun.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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