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- 1980
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 36 m
- 1980
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 36 m
Summary When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
Directed By: Tony Bill
Written By: Alan Ormsby
- 1980
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 36 m
- 1980
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 36 m
My Bodyguard
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Summary When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
Directed By: Tony Bill
Written By: Alan Ormsby
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
67
58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
An engaging yarn about a wealthy kid who learns to fight his way out of trouble in a rough Chicago public school. He also learns not to believe in labels placed on people. [19 Dec 1980, p.10]
My Bodyguard is a fresh, pointed, unpretentious, funny and poignant picture that, like Breaking Away, is also about growing up. Director Tony Bill's claim for it, that "it isn't corny, it isn't violent, and it isn't trendy," is true and significant. [15 Aug 1980, p.15]
This is a heartwarming film, superbly directed by ex-actor Tony Bill. Makepeace is excellent as the slight protagonist, and Baldwin is perfect as the brooding, misunderstood mammoth. Dave Grusin's score adds immeasurably to the tone.
My Bodyguared is 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.
At its best, My Bodyguard recalls the freshness and authenticity of Breaking Away -- and for a while seems that it is going to be even better. That impression proves premature. After building up to a stirring, climactic turning point, Alan Ormsby's original screenplay falters in the stretch. [15 Aug 1980, p.C1]
Alan Ormsby's script, about a new kid in a Chicago high school who hires the biggest guy in school to fend off a lunch money protection racket, is (unusually) directed not for nostalgia value but from a perspective of adolescent insecurity, and helped along by fresh performances from a cast of inexperienced young actors.
A film of ingredients, rather than ideas realized and integrated: it panders on different, disjunctive levels.
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Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
Market Street Productions,
Melvin Simon Productions
Release Date Sep 26, 1980
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG
Tagline I'm tired of being terrorized in the toilets, chased after school, and shaken down for my lunch money. Will you be my bodyguard?
Awards
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
