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My Bodyguard (1980)
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The son (Chris Makepeace) of a hotel manager (Martin Mull) finds himself the target of the school bully (Matt Dillon, in his breakthrough movie role). So he makes an offer to a school outcast--the biggest kid in class (Adam Baldwin), who reputedly has actually killed someone. He'll pay him to be his bodyguard against the bully. But the business arrangement turns into friendship, even as the smaller boy learns his new friend's secret shame. The first film by director-producer Tony Bill, this one comes down a little too heavily on the feel-good notes (and includes a gratingly precious appearance by Ruth Gordon in her lovable eccentric mode)...
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My Bodyguard Movie Review by Zara  (1/31/2007) |
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I have a soft spot in my heart for this movie. I first watched it when I was a very small child and couldn't appreciate some of the factors at play in it that I can now see. At the time I had no clue who Martin Mull and Ruth Gordon were or any of the other things that they'd been involved in. (Well, other than that Clint...
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