January 8, 2011
A great teen drama/comedy movie. The story is both quirky and realistic. I really liked this movie, it's fun.
Chris Makepeace,
Adam Baldwin,
Matt Dillon,
Ruth Gordon,
Martin Mull
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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 move... read more
DVD Release Date: January 29, 2002
Stats: 221 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (221)
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August 8, 2007We enjoyed this muchly as kids. It's a poignant movie like a super-version of an Afterschool special. I'm sure it would still go over well with kids today. I don't need to watch it again however.
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December 30, 2009A fine story, Chris Makepeace gives a wonderful performance. Enjoyable and it has a wonderful message. Well written with excellent character development.
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October 26, 2008At the time, I would have enjoyed beating the hell out of the guys who took their insecurities out on me, but I'm not sure that's a right proper message to send in any film, actually. Still, Adam Baldwin is on Chuck. . .
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July 10, 2008Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon and a cast of great actors star in this teen drama about a boy who is mercilessly bullied sdo he enlists a huge, lumbering mysterious older boy to be his bodyguard. A triumph of teen life in the start of the 1980s, and best teen flick of the year 1980. (... read more
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July 9, 2008I must have seen this on cable 50 times when I was a kid. I never got sick of it, but then I was only ten.
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October 16, 2007The film addresses the bullying in schools, a nightmare for those students that appear weak, or easy marks for these predators to make a name for themselves among their peers, at the others expense. When Clifford Peache, the son of a hotel manager in Chicago, changes schools, he ... read more
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July 18, 2007Not to be confused with the Kevin Costner-Whitney Houston film, this borderline B-movie offers a really young Matt Dillon playing a punk kid.
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May 23, 2007The best movie of it's kind! Adam Baldwin masterly portrays a tortured soul. This was when he stole my heart!
Critic Reviews
July 24, 2007
Variety Staff, Variety
July 24, 2007
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
A film of ingredients, rather than ideas realized and integrated: it panders on different, disjunctive levels. Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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 mov... Full Review
August 30, 2004
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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. Full Review
February 14, 2011
Christopher Lloyd, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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. Full Review
January 2, 2011
Randy White, Common Sense Media
Coming of age story still relevant and engaging. Full Review
October 3, 2006
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Makepeace is excellent as the slight protagonist, and Baldwin is perfect as the brooding, misunderstood mammoth. Full Review
February 9, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out
The message that accompanies the central theme -- Kids are basically Nice -- is that Brute Force Rules. Full Review
January 26, 2004
Emily Blunt, Blunt Review
Pah-lease...so goofy
July 25, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Does the typical "spiritual uplift" routine without feeling saccharine or insincere.
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