My Bodyguard

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My Bodyguard

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Directed by Tony Bill
Produced by Melvin Simon
Written by Alan Ormsby
Starring Chris Makepeace
Adam Baldwin
Matt Dillon
Martin Mull
Ruth Gordon
Music by Dave Grusin
Editing by Stu Linder
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) July 11, 1980
Running time 96 min.
Country USA
Language English
Budget $1,700,000
Gross revenue $22,482,952
IMDb profile

My Bodyguard is a 1980 comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Tony Bill, and written by Alan Ormsby. It stars Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin (his movie debut), Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, and Ruth Gordon. This movie ranked number 45 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.

This film inspired Drillbit Taylor, a 2008 Judd Apatow film, as three teenage boys became the target of the high school bully and pool their money together to hire a budget bodyguard (Owen Wilson). Adam Baldwin has a cameo appearance as a potential bodyguard being interviewed, who thinks the whole thing is a stupid idea.

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Plot

Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) is the new kid at Lake View High in Chicago. Clifford, who arrives at school in a hotel limo, soon becomes a target of abuse from school bully Melvin Moody (Matt Dillon). Moody and his gang of thugs (Dubrow, Koontz, and Hightower) regularly terrorize and extort lunch money from other students (supposedly "protection" from school outcast Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, according to school legend, killed his own little brother).

Living with his hotel-manager father (Martin Mull) and wildly eccentric but loving grandmother (Ruth Gordon) in a fancy hotel, Clifford spends his nights with his family spying on the neighbors through a telescope. When he asks Linderman to be his bodyguard, Linderman initially refuses, but both boys soon become friends when Ricky saves Clifford from a beating by Moody and his gang.

Cast

Trivia

Jennifer Beals' and Adam Baldwin's movie debut.

Goofs

Juxtaposition of red-haired friend and Linderman.

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bodyguard"

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