My Bodyguard Review
My Bodyguard is propelled by some fine acting from its primarily young cast. The performances of the main teen players (Chris_Makepeace, Adam_Baldwin, and Matt_Dillon) and the supporting adults (Ruth_Gordon and Martin_Mull) are convincing and genuine. Dillon made a splash in 1979's dystopian Over the Edge, and he stands out here as the creepy school bully. The interplay between Makepeace and Baldwin, however, is the film's most compelling aspect. The film was clearly cast in the same underdog-champion mold of the Rocky films, but it also had a deceptively sweet tone that went against the grain of the usually bitter teen pictures of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Such a sweetness prefigured the explosion of the teen comedy-dramas of the mid-1980s, notably the films of John_Hughes. The picture was a critical and popular success, and it marked the feature-film directorial debut of actor-producer Tony_Bill. Brendon Hanley, Rovi
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