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My Bodyguard. There is a terrifying moment in adolescence when suddenly some of the kids are twice as big as the rest of the kids. It is terrifying for everybody: For the kids who are suddenly tall and gangling, and for the kids who are still small and are getting beat up all the time. My Bodyguard places that moment in a Chicago high school ...
Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) lives in an upscale Chicago luxury hotel with his father (Martin Mull), who manages the hotel, and his eccentric but loving grandmother (Ruth Gordon). Clifford spends his nights with his family relaxing on the rooftop patio and spying on the neighbors through a telescope. He is the new kid at Lake View High ...
My Bodyguard - Apple TV. Available on Prime Video, iTunes, Hulu. After years of being sheltered in private school, Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) finds life difficult at his new Chicago high school where a tough-talking bully (Matt Dillon) and his pals regularly extort students lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Peache hires a bodyguard-the ...
Synopsis. Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlist the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike.
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Washington Post. My Bodyguard is a fresh, pointed, unpretentious, funny and poignant picture that, like Breaking Away, is also about growing up. Director Tony Bill's claim for it, that "it isn't corny, it isn't violent, and it isn't trendy," is true and significant. [15 Aug 1980, p.15] Read More. FULL REVIEW.
After moving to Chicago, a teenager is tormented by a gang leader until he devises a scheme to give the bully a dose of his own medicine. Rating. PG. Comedy.
HISTORY. My Bodyguard marked Tony Bill ’s directorial debut, but he was already known at the time for his work as an actor and as one of the Academy Award-winning producers of The Sting (1973, see entry). As noted in an 11 Jul 1980 LAT review of My Bodyguard, Tony Bill ran an office on Market Street in Venice, CA, to promote up-and-coming ...
