Lifeguard
by Daniel Petrie
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Actor: Anne Archer, Kathleen Quinlan, Parker Stevenson, Sam Elliott, Stephen YoungDirector: Daniel Petrie
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Lifeguard
Movie Review: So Bad it's Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
Get a load of Sam Elliott driving his Corvette barefoot! I did things like that in the 70s, and would probably still do them today if I could get away with it. It's the kind of stuff that makes a bad movie great!
And a movie worth owning for its historical value alone. Plus, it's amusing and excruciating at the same time.
This five-star pick is an absolutely horrible movie, a shallow tale, one that I'll bet Sam Elliott is embarassed by (understandably), and probably posterity's most succinct, accurate snapshot of youth lifestyles on the Southern California coast in the 1970s. I know because I was there -- I was only a year or two older than Kathleen Quinlan's character, almost as cute, and easily as stupid. It's more accurate than a docudrama and is as timeless as it is trendy.
"Lifeguard" is a perfect chronicle of the horrific polyester cheesy-hair-and-sideburns brain-freezing-interior-decor, free love, bad dog 70s. Those of us who lived it, who wore those faux seersucker polyester jackets and bell-bottoms, those of us whose kitchens were decked with the sister print of the flowered wallpaper pattern in Ann Archer's kitchen, calculated to elicit spontaneous shouts of horror, know that it was even worse than we remember. We may also remember how the loose morality of the times made for a lot of cheap fun and worse misery. The tortuously sappy soundtrack captures it perfectly. The movie is a profile in the worst of 1970s America.
I give this movie five stars because it is so pleasantly and unpleasantly honest and accurate. It presents authentic insight into the bad 70s. They were bad. Worse, indeed, than remembered. This movie is evidence exhibit A!
Summary of Lifeguard
Sam Elliot drew waves of accolades for his sensitive and sexy portrayal of aging lifeguard Rick Carlson, who's compelled to reassess his life and career as a professional lifeguard. To keep things status quo or pursue things status-conscious - that's Carlson's dilemma. It's an agonizing decision compounded on one side by an adoring beach groupie (Quinlan) and on the other by a former high school flame (Archer) that's game for rekindling, but only if he's serious about trading in his swimsuits for three-piece suits.Drama DVD Video
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