My Bodyguard is a 1980 comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Tony Bill , and written by Alan Ormsby. The film stars Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, and Ruth Gordon. The film was the début of both Baldwin and an uncredited Jennifer Beals, and was Joan Cusack's first major film. Clifford Peache lives in a fancy Chicago hotel with his father , who manages the hotel, and his wildly eccentric but loving grandmother . Clifford spends his nights with his family relaxing on the roof garden and spying on the neighbors through a telescope. He is the... new kid at Lake View High School, where he arrives in a hotel limousine. Clifford becomes a target of abuse from a bully, Melvin Moody . Moody and his gang of thugs, Dubrow , Koontz , and Hightower , regularly terrorize and extort lunch money from other smaller, timid students, allegedly to protect them from a school outcast, the large, sullen Ricky Linderman . According to school legend, Ricky has killed several people, including his own little brother.
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| Release date: | July 11, 1980 |
| Directed by: | Tony Bill |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Producer: | Don Devlin, Phillip Goldfarb, Melvin Simon |
| Editor: | Stu Linder |
| Music by: | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography: | Michael D. Margulies |
| Screenplay by: | Alan Ormsby |
| Estimated budget: | $1,700,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |