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Before the hordes jump on My Bodyguard as the Breaking Away of this summer, a word of caution: None of the adolescent boys who star in My Bodyguard fall in love. They don't even become infatuated. Girls are brace-faced idiots who fill in the empty classrooms of the John Fleer School in Chicago, Ill. That makes this heart-warming tale of pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust...
Perhaps it's this pallid, celibate quality that makes My Bodyguard so appealing. Without redeeming prurient interest, the film draws attention to its charming heroes and revels in a puerile macho sensibility. Lacking Breaking Away's overwhelming charm, or Fame's exuberance, it's still...
Fifteen-year-old Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) switches schools and instantly alienates the bullies in his new class. They threaten to mangle him unless he forks over his lunch money. So Cliff finds a bodyguard, hulking Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, the rumor goes, has killed a kid, raped a teacher, and shot a cop. Cliff eventually wins over the silent, secretive Ricky, and the two score a rousing--and hilarious--final victory over the bullies who have tormented them since...
...fame, stars as Max Brown in a Canadian production of Max Braithwaite's novel Why Shoot the Teacher? The film reportedly set all kinds of box-office records in Canada--it's set in Saskatchewan and was filmed in Alberta--and it's easy to see why. Like My Bodyguard, it emphasizes real people in real situations--a young schoolteacher in a barren Canadian farmers' town...
...directorial debut, gets good use out of his Chicago locations, and he has an unmushy view of teen-age life. Grownups may feel a trifle odd stepping up to the box office for this one if unescorted by a child but, with one along, may find surprising dividends. My Bodyguard is a picture that an adult can take a youth to without feeling either patronizing or embarrassed. These days, that is a rarity...