My Bodyguard

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My Bodyguard
A promotional poster for My Bodyguard.
Directed by	Tony Bill
Produced by	Don Devlin Phillip Goldfarb Melvin Simon
Written by	Alan Ormsby
Starring	Chris Makepeace Matt Dillon Adam Baldwin Paul Quandt Joan Cusack
Music by	Dave Grusin
Cinematography	Michael D. Margulies
Editing by	Stu Linder
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	July 11, 1980 (limited) September 26, 1980 (wide)
Running time	102 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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My Bodyguard is a 1980 movie released by 20th Century Fox studios, directed by Tony Bill, and written by Alan Ormsby. It stars Chris Makepeace, Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin (his movie debut), Martin Mull, and Ruth Gordon. This movie ranked number 45 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. This film helped with the idea for the 2008 film Drillbit Taylor: Budget Bodyguard 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 makes a surprise appearance as he is one of the bodyguards the three kids are interviewing.

[edit] 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 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.