| 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 |
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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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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.
Jennifer Beals' and Adam Baldwin's movie debut.
Juxtaposition of red-haired friend and Linderman.
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