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Mood:
- ExcitingSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Blind AmbitionDaring RescueRescueMilitary LifeDangerLove and RomanceCouplesFriends more...
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Genres:
- ActionDrama
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- Boys' Night
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- Mild Violent Content
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The Guardian, 2006
English
USA
Profile of The Guardian
The mood of The Guardian is exciting and suspenseful. The plot centers around blind ambition, a daring rescue, and military life. It is a drama and action movie. In approach, The Guardian is serious and realistic. It happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that The Guardian includes mild violent content.
Summary of The Guardian
Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher team up in this torch-passing tale of the brave men and women in the Navy Coastguard elite rescue diver unit. A catastrophic rescue mission leaves him wounded after his wife (Sela Ward) walks out on him, so heavily decorated, reluctantly aging rescue diver Ben Randall (Costner) takes some leave from the ocean to assume instructor duties down at the naval training base. There his humorless pedagogy rubs a lot of trainees the wrong way, but a champion high-school swimmer, Jake (Kucher), has no problem keeping up, and it looks like old Ben may have found someone worthy to be his replacement. But first each man has to wrestle with his own personal demons...and each other. Under the no-nonsense direction of Andrew Davis (THE FUGITIVE, UNDER SIEGE), the visceral energy flows nonstop through this familiar but nonetheless riveting affair. Shot in a flat, matter-of-fact manner, the harshness of naval academy life is celebrated without being glamorized, while the rescues at sea are nothing short of hair-raising, making excellent use of CGI effects to plunge the viewer right into the towering waves and storms along with the divers. Several familiar, stalwart faces are on hand to help the boys become men and the men to accept aging gracefully, including John Heard, Clancy Brown, and Neal McDonough. Costner is perfect in a curmudgeonly role that fits him like a tailor-made wet suit. The real surprise is Kutcher, who seems to grow as an actor as his character grows as a person, revealing lots of murky depth. Bonnie Bramlet adds some sparkle as the singer at the local watering hole.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 September 2006 |
| Runtime: | 139 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ben Randall
as Jake Fischer
as Capt. William Hadley
as Helen Randall
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Critics Reviews
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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- by: Kate Taylor
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Jessica Reaves
Users Reviews
- 15.January.2011
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- by: pgsmalley
- pgsmalley rated this movie
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- 29.October.2008
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- by: Anita.Hoffman
- Anita.Hoffman rated this movie0/10
