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My Bodyguard
Clifford Peache is a sensitive, well-to-do teen who becomes the target of bully Melvin Moody after he starts attending a new school. Clifford then acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
15 January 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
17 October 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 October 1962, New York City, New York, USA
2 November 1966
30 October 1896, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
22 September 1902, Bucharest, Romania
February 14, 2011
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.
October 23, 2004
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.
January 26, 2004
Pah-lease...so goofy
October 03, 2006
Makepeace is excellent as the slight protagonist, and Baldwin is perfect as the brooding, misunderstood mammoth.
July 24, 2007
A film of ingredients, rather than ideas realized and integrated: it panders on different, disjunctive levels.
July 25, 2002
Does the typical "spiritual uplift" routine without feeling saccharine or insincere.
February 09, 2006
The message that accompanies the central theme -- Kids are basically Nice -- is that Brute Force Rules.
August 30, 2004
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.
July 24, 2007
In his directorial debut, Tony Bill assembles a truly remarkable cast of youngsters with little or no previous acting experience.
January 02, 2011
Coming of age story still relevant and engaging.